Televizyon Dizilerinde Kadına Yönelik Şiddet ve Ataerkilliğin Temsili

Abstract

In the first period of humanity, women were hunting and gathering with men. After the invention of agriculture and people's settled life, women started to work more inside the house and men started to work outside. With the increase in infant mortality rates, women's lives began to take shape more in the home. This situation continued until after the industrial revolution and the decline in male participation of women in the post-war workforce. In these processes, women started to work in society and participate in social life again. However, most women continued to work in their home lives. With the technological developments and the entry of television into the houses, people started to get information about the life outside the home, with television, which is the reflector of the outside world, without leaving the house. Afterwards, these images watched by individuals began to be quite effective in shaping their lives. From this point of view, this study was carried out to determine the representation of women and the impact of television series on society. The study, which was carried out with the phenomenological research method from the qualitative research method, was based on the comparison of the thoughts of two different generations between the ages of 40-45 (middle adults) and 20-25 (young adults) using a semi-structured interview form. Within the scope of the research, in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 people in total. The data of the research were analyzed by descriptive analysis method. Within the scope of the study, three themes emerged: the display of violence against women, the presentation of gender inequality in TV series and the symbolization of patriarchy in TV series. As a result of the research, it is seen that there is a lot of violence against women in television series, TV series show women weaker, and patriarchy is heavily covered. In line with these results, considering the effect of television on individuals, it is suggested that there should be TV series aimed at raising awareness of the society in television series, and that the series in which women are more powerful rather than those in which they are shown as helpless and weak. Key Words: Gender Roles, TV Series, Violence Against Women