Kim (magazine)

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Kim
Editor-in-chiefDuygu Asena
Categories Women's magazine
PublisherAD Publishing
Founded1992
Final issue1999
Country Turkey
Based in Istanbul
Language Turkish

Kim (Turkish : Who?) was a Turkish language women's magazine existed between 1992 and 1999 in Istanbul, Turkey. The magazine held feminist ideas and values and was among the most popular and best-selling magazines in Turkey during the 1990s. [1] [2]

History and profile

Kim was established in 1992 with the motto "personal is political". [1] [3] The founding company was the AD Publishing. [2] Duygu Asena was named editor-in-chief of Kim in 1993. [4] [5] It featured articles on the equality of women, discrimination against women and social gender [2] which were mostly written by Duygu Asena. [6] The readers of the magazine were middle-class women aged 20-30. [2]

Duygu Asena, in an interview, reported that Kim was very similar to Kadınca and its continuation. [4] Because both dealt with women-related topics such as relationships, sex, beauty, and fashion [7] and adopted a liberal feminist ideology which was used as a vehicle in their struggle against traditional religious laws and customs. [8] However, Asena also stated that Kim was more political and addressed younger women unlike Kadınca. [4] Süheyla Kırca also provides some differences between these two magazines indicating that Kim did not focus on sport, environmental issues and employment which were among the frequent topics in Kadınca. [7] Kim folded in 1999. [1]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Selda Malkoç Kılıç; Duygu Vefikuluçay Yılmaz (March 2019). "Cumhuriyet Dönemi Kadın Dergileri (1923-1992)". OPUS (in Turkish). 10 (17). doi: 10.26466/opus.518421 . S2CID   192613365.
  3. ↑ Emrah Güler (20 January 2014). "Women's magazines that redefined feminism in Turkey". Hürriyet Daily News . Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 Fahriye Dinçer; Ülker Uncu (1 October 2006). ""Ayşe'ler Uyanın, Ali'leri Eğitin": Duygu Asena ile Yayıncılık Üzerine Söyleşi". Feminist Yaklaşımlar (in Turkish). Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  5. ↑ "Doodle for Late Feminist Writer Duygu Asena". Bianet. 19 April 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  6. ↑ Yeşim Arat; Şevket Pamuk (2019). Turkey between Democracy and Authoritarianism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 235. ISBN   978-0-521-19116-6.
  7. 1 2 Süheyla Kırca (2001). "Turkish Women's Magazines: The Popular Meets the Political". Women's Studies International Forum. 24 (3–4): 457–468. doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(01)00167-4. PMID   17672019.
  8. ↑ Nadia Siddiqui (2014). "Women's magazines in Asian and Middle Eastern countries" (PDF). South Asian Popular Culture. 12 (1): 30. doi:10.1080/14746689.2014.879423. S2CID   144285082.
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