Sokaktan Akademiye: Kad n Hareketinin Kurumsalla ma Süreci

Feminism is seen as a social movement, which concerns with woman’s problems; which criticizes her being excluded in thesociety; humiliated, dejected, alienated to herself; and in order for this situation to be corrected, which aims to struggle with thesurviving patriarchal concept, norms and values (Dolta , 1991; 83). An essay called “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’’published by English Wollstonecraft, who took a reference the principles of French Revolution, in 1792 is accepted a startingpoint of feminist movement. The work draws attention that the each individual is born with his/her equality, independence andliberty rights; however, the dominant political and social order took wrongfully these rights of individual; the dominance of menon the female gender; and the negative affects resulted from this situation (Rullmann, 1996: 266 – 270).The first wave of feminism, which was increasingly strengthened in 19th Century and which mostly concentrated on publicarea and voting right, stabilized in 1920s (Donovan, 1997: 121). In the late 1960s, the process, which was flamed again and called“the second wave of feminism” began the marches toward acquiring the political rights and extended with the movements ofcivilian rights (Whaley, 2003: 186). In this period, it was seen that feminist agencies formed in the past were begun to go intoaction. The rapid growth economic development experienced in capitalist countries in postwar (the Second World War) preparedmaterial conditions of the second wave of feminist movement. That a number of women work and participate in the feministmovement became effective on their concrete life practices and consciousness levels. However, the fact that that acquiring thebasic rights was not sufficient to rescue the women from their subordinate position and did not modify both the distinct wagesbased on gender in the work life and the extra labor load in the house was begun to be seen from women.In 1970s, in the discussions of Marxism, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism, Postmodernism and so on and different opinionmovements, it was seen that the arguments developed toward women’s problems and relationships between genders converged.The movement point of these thoughts and arguments is the political basis of problem, the effects of political phenomena and theeffects of these effects on the individuals (Kad o lu, 2005: 139). In the other words, in this period, analysis was realized on thepower balance between women and men.In USA and continental Europe, the ideological action of second wave of feminist movement beginning in 1960s andac