Tan, MineAtaman, Narınç2022-06-092022-06-091999http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/81435This thesis examines the construction of the Turkish woman identity in the early Republican period by analysing the life story of a woman gynacologist. The thesis develops itself in 3 major parts: 1) the structural and theoritical aspects of biography method 2) the social, historical and political background 3) biography of Şefika Ataman. Ataman is born in the year 1916 as a daughter of a upper-middle class Turkish family which has later migrated to Turkey. She has been trained in Turkey in a period which has been determined by the ideological approach and understanding of the Turkish Republic, proclaimed in 1923. The basic mission of the period was construction of a new identity, detached from the Ottoman past, pending on the more theoretical and Oriental culture. Whereas the roots of the modern, Republican Turkish identity is deposed in the process of Westernisation and secularism. Finally, analysing the life story of Şefika Ataman, the thesis concludes that what has been taken as the creative conditions of the new identity is a concrete reality as the biography unfolds. Reffering to the data supplied by this biography and the theoretical approach, the thesis, gears toward a proposal that rests on the assumption that the emancipation process in Turkey, as long as the woman identity is concerned is yet not develop. In this sense the condition of feminism in Turkey is problematic, in the affirmative sense, that emancipation of woman can not be detached from the democratization process. These two concepts are mutually inclusive.trKadın ÇalışmalarımasterThesis