Kim (magazine)

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Kim
Editor-in-chiefDuygu Asena
CategoriesWomen's magazine
PublisherAD Publishing
Year founded1992
Final issue1999
CountryTurkey
Based inIstanbul
LanguageTurkish

Kim (meaning Who? in English) was a Turkish language women's magazine existed between 1992 and 1999. 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 AD Publishing.[2] Duygu Asena was named editor-in-chief of Kim in 1993.[4][5] It carried articles on equality of women, discrimination against women and social gender[2] which were mostly articulated 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] 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]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Yeşim Arata (August 2004). "Rethinking The Polotical: A Feminist Journal In Turkey, Pazartesi". Women's Studies International Forum. 27 (3). doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2004.06.007.
  2. ^ a b c d Selda Malkoç Kılıç; Duygu Vefikuluçay Yılmaz (March 2019). "Cumhuriyet Dönemi Kadın Dergileri (1923-1992)". OPUS (in Turkish). 10 (17). doi:10.26466/opus.518421.
  3. ^ Emrah Güler (20 January 2014). "Women's magazines that redefined feminism in Turkey". Hürriyet. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b c 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 (5 September 2019). Turkey between Democracy and Authoritarianism. Cambridge University Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-521-19116-6.
  7. ^ a b Süheyla Kırca (2001). "Turkish Women's Magazines: The Popular Meets the Political". Women's Studies International Forum. 24 (3–4). doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(01)00167-4.
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