(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2012) Gökçem, Selen; Akser, Murat
The feminist movement in the 1980s Turkey enabled women to question women?s sexual emancipation. The raise of educated women, individuality and sexual emancipation helped shaping the new educated urban women image in the 1980s Turkey. The woman directors of 1980s Turkey made several women themed films in which the woman characters were represented as educated, working, economically free and sexually emancipated. Yet, the representation of sexually emancipated women in these films resulted in women hysteria. This study identifies the representation of 1980s educated emancipated women in Turkish woman directors? films that resulted in three basic outcomes; they are women hysteria, male hysteria and women?s self-sacrifice