Abstract:

This study presents the way in which women’s identity takes place in the media in the context of gender. The concept of gender is one of the important research areas of today. Especially the position of female identity in social codes is very important both at universal level and when local elements are concerned. At this point, the positional determinism of the media, the ability to direct the audience mass is known for a very long time. It brings together the television medium in particular, as a sociological phenomenon, with gender studies. In the light of these arguments, it is emphasized what the concept of gender is in the first phase of the study. Later on, it was attempted to explain how the identity of woman could be read along with the problems within the television medium on the social level. All this context, the following section is to reach a point of such determination and to determine the position of women in Turkey. The sample of the work was identified as the “Yaprak Dökümü” drama series, which was followed by appreciation between 2005 and 2010, and which was quite favorable for the presentation of the female representation. In this context, the Turkish native drama product was first structurally handled as a tv genre. The “Yaprak Dökümü” drama series, represented by many different ‘women’, can expand this assessment; in order to be able to reveal the class and social differences of female identity.

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