ATTITUDES OF FEMALE PRISONERS TOWARDS GENDER BASED DISCRIMINATION and FAMILY HONOR

MEHMET KAYHAN MUTLU - GAYE BARIŞ

ABSTRACT

Based on a field research, this paper examines female prisoners’ attitudes towards
gender discrimination and the family honor. This research was conducted with
female prisoners hold at Ankara Sincan Women’s Closed Prison. During the
field study, a survey was implemented with 134 female prisoners out of total
287 prisoners. It was explored from this study that female offenders were in
tendency to reproduce gendered division of labor at home by assigning traditional
stereotypic domestic female roles to women and male roles to men, while they
were more egalitarian towards gender equality in the labor market by assigning
different occupations to both men and women. On the other side, it was observed
during the field study that while female prisoners tend to describe the concept
of honor through female sexuality by attributing a great value to it, they mostly
related man’s honor with appropriately fulfillment of his male roles.