THE STATUE OF WOMAN TURKISH-OTTOMAN SOCIETY BASED ON THE KADINLAR DÜNYASI

Abstract

The matter of the woman that is one of the most important issue of the social life throughout the human's history remain actual today. Because the human living in the social environment interacts with the opposite sex constantly. These relations are organized by cultural norms that shape society. Surely each society's value system and relationship patterns are different from each other. However, interaction with foreign cultures among communities experiences similar changes in relationships depending on social events and economic factors over time. The case of man-woman relationships that is an universal problem in this aspect has been the subject for the many disciplines and it has been long and complicated affair. The point is that the issues that concern us track how a development in the course of Turkish-Ottoman society. The primary goal of the traditional patriarchal system is to create a world where man dominance maintains. The women's movement is always under pressure by power, so the continuity of existing traditional structures is provided. The role and behavior of both sexes who were in the hands of this scheme captured the will of women and the women are always in the second. Men can move freely in many fields such divorcing, marriage more than one women and relationships outside of marriage and they limit women's rights and freedoms in a form of unfair. This problem is handled strikingly in Kadınlar Dünyası. This article is a general assessment on the problem of man-woman relations in Turkish-Ottoman society based within the framework of Kadınlar Dünyası.