The Image of a Woman in the Epistolary Story “Ağlayan Kadınlar”- Kolajı İçin Taslak by the Turkish Author Erendiz Atasü

This paper analyzes the issue of unifying women's suffering as shown through the letters of two friends, Idil who lives in England, and Sirma who lives in Turkey. Through the letters they send to each other, both women mirror the current time and places in which the determiners of the patriarchal worldview are written, whereby each woman is destined to be in a subordinate position in relation to a man. In the short story titled "Ağlayan Kadınlar" Kolajı İçin Taslak (1997) the author Erendiz Atasü tries to free her heroines from the burden of serving the patriarchal ideology. However, the supremacy of the male over the female gender limits a woman, no matter how successful she might be in the public eye, where one can once again witness gender inequality. The presence of a woman in the space assigned to the male gender means an end to various forms of male domination. By contrasting the feminist/gender perspectives of the two main protagonists, this paper will attempt to demonstrate that the string of letters is arranged in such a way as to present a picture of the world as presented through the eyes of a woman, and a woman's experience.