A Personal Odyssey Towards “Feminist Curiosity”

Abstract

I was born in Istanbul in 1972. In 1981, as a family, we moved to the United States in the footsteps of my mother who was appointed the representative of the Central Bank of Turkey in New York. My father followed us to New York and became a perfect house-husband, cooking and taking care of domestic chores while my mother worked. I finished elementary school in a public school in Queens. After our two-year stay in New York, coming back to Istanbul was difficult. I was accepted at Robert College, a US high school in Istanbul founded in the 1860s by American missionaries. I had difficulty in Turkish literature and science. It became quite evident that the education that I had received in the public school in Queens was not comparable to the quality of education at Robert College. The great news, however, was that my English was fluent in comparison to that of other students at Robert College because I had learned it with native speakers in New York.