Affective and Emotional : Turkish Women's Engagement with #sendeanlat

Sammanfattning: This thesis focuses on the affective and emotional dimensions of Turkish women’s engagement with #sendeanlat, an online protest against sexism and sexual harassment in Turkey. The thesis sets out to explore the affective and emotional characteristics of the women’s engagement and the awareness generated through this engagement. By applying a qualitative approach, 14 semi-structured interviews were conducted with the women who engaged in the online protest. The sample includes 10 women who did not identify with feminism and 4 women who identified themselves as feminists.The thesis focuses on non-organized women and unpacks the motivations of non- feminist women’s engagement in a protest against sexism and sexual harassment as well as its limitations by focusing on affect and emotions through online spaces in women’s everyday life.