Gender in Alev Alatlı's novels

Gender is the result of people biologically born as men and women , adopting the roles of femininity and masculinity in line with the cultural values of the society. In this context, in this master's thesis titled "Gender in Alev Alatlı's Novels", the author's novels written from "Yaseminler Tüter mi Hâlâ", published in January 1985, to the present, were examined through "gender inequality". Alatlı frequently deals with the theme of "women" in her novels. In her Works, women located at a central point are generally chosen from people having a wide intellectual world. It is possible to associate intellectual women with a unique identity with the author. She frequently included the victim woman in her novels. In her novels, subjects such as patriarchal family structure, male-female relations, corruption, honor, chastity, woman identified only with motherhood and deindividuation are important themes in terms of gender inequality. Therefore, Alatlı examines the socio-cultural structuring of societies in terms of gender in her novels. She deals with the role of the attitudes and behaviors that the society assigns to individuals in the construction of gender.