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Violence against women in a society reflect the society’s approach to women. This makes the connection between violence and socially constructed meanings. Against the biological gender theory, which is based on the assumption that gender and its associated role definitions and values are determined by what we are born with, this article adopts a gender approach that argues that our understanding of gender is culturally determined. In this context, it has been accepted that honor, which restricts the lives of women is a superior value created by traditional gender understanding. İn this respect, the relationship between honor and gender understanding with Islam is scrutinized. İt has been observed that the patriarchal culture in which İslam emerged was reflected in Islamic texts and evaluations, especially after the death of the Prophet, the freedom possibilities brought by Islam for women were weakened. In this theoretical framework, interviews were held with women from Diyarbakır, where the power of traditional gender values and change can be seen together; it has been observed that women largely reject the unilateral understanding of honor and the thought that it is based on religion, and some women do not accept this understanding and questioned the relationship between the secondary status of women and the traditional understanding of religion. It has been noticed that the way of relating to religion, being married or single, intimacy with the women’s movement or the level of sensitivity to violence experienced by women are effective in this differentiation.

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