States Of Gender -In Trabzon In The 1990s From Lıne To Sıgn: Hamsı Magazıne Case /Çizgiden Göstergeye 1990’lı Yıllarda Trabzon’da Cinsiyet Halleri: Hamsi Dergisi Örneği

The art of caricature with the sense of humor peculiar to Eastern Black Sea culture is not recent; however, it still reflects the cultural components of the region. When interpreting caricatures as signs, they can be used as data source relevant to social structure. This article is a semiotic analysis on Hamsi magazine, published at the beginning of 1990s. Within the frame of gender-based division of labor, being a woman and man in Eastern Black Sea, where discrimination is internalized with the cultural structure, is interpreted with the side meanings of systems reflected in caricatures in Hamsi Magazine. Besides the representation of the gender in the Magazine, social transformation causing the reflection of the immigration between Trabzon and Sarp Border Crossing in those years in the line is interpreted via caricatures related to the foreign women representation. Thus, the objective of this study is to explain the gender signs represented by the discursive system about the typification and labeling in Eastern Black Sea gender culture. Being a woman, man and foreign woman in the gender -envisioned with the witness of time and space- is analyzed with Ronald Barthes’s semiotic approach indicating that the signification presents itself with certain functions and is being constructed via signs