Open AccessThe Place of Honour Code in Middle-class Women’s Leisure in High-security Estates in Turkey
Author(s) -
Gökben Demirbaş
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
kadın 2000
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1302-9916
DOI - 10.33831/jws.v22i1.108
Subject(s) - honour , middle class , gender studies , urbanization , estate , sociology , everyday life , rhetoric , neighbourhood (mathematics) , economic growth , political science , law , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , economics
This paper investigates the role of gender in women’s everyday leisure practices in a high-security estate in Bursa Turkey. Defined as a new type of sub-urbanisation, such residential areas have emerged in Turkey towards the end of 1990s and, to date, social class has been the central area of inquiry in relation to high-security estates in Turkey. Drawing on the findings from a qualitative research, the current paper argues that gender plays a central role in middle-class women’s access to and use of neighbourhood leisure spaces. Even though the community values and the middle-class rhetoric of gender equality advocate the equal use of public leisure spaces, family-level male control shaped by honour code is still dominant in preventing women from practising the leisure activities they choose.