Daniel Defoe'nun Moll Flanders ve Namık Kemal'in İntibah romanlarında günahkar kadın temsilleri

Gender studies emerged in the 1980s and 1990s and gender began to be discussed in greater detail in academia. Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field focusing on women, gender identity, and representations in general. Women who live in patriarchal societies and are exposed to unfair attitudes have begun to think about their identity, purposes in their life, expectations from life, and their status in community. Society determines whether a woman is moral and immoral. This thesis examines fallen women representations, their features and their literary, religious, and historical backgrounds by providing literary and mythological examples. Mahpeyker is a fallen woman character in the novel İntibah which Namık Kemal wrote in 1876 and is one of the first example of Turkish novel that shows how fallen women are viewed by the society. To understand fallen women's point of view, Moll, a fallen woman character in the novel Moll Flanders, which Daniel Defoe wrote in 1722, was examined. This thesis explores how and why a woman is called a fallen or femme fatale by male-oriented societies in literary works.