Publications
In May 2005 Professor Sev’er published a special issue of "Violence Against Women", and received a UTSC/Social Science Teaching Award in April.
Aysan Sev’er is a first-generation Turkish-Canadian. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on gender relations and sociology of family at the University of Toronto.
Her research focuses on problematic issues in women’s lives, such as separation and divorce, sexual harassment, and violence by male partners. She is interested in extreme forms of violence against women in some of the developing countries, and how the local and the international communities can combine forces towards the elimination of such violence.
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Fleeing the House of Horrors: Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners.
(University of Toronto Press, 2002). (Single Author - Academic)
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The Women’s Health and Urban Life is a peer reviewed journal located at the Sociology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. The journal addresses a wide range of topics that directly or indirectly affect both the physical and mental health of girls, teenage and adult women living in urban or urbanizing pockets of the world.
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Gocmen Ruhuna Acilan Pencereler: Windows to an Immigrant’s Soul
Toronto: Pristine Publications. (Editor- Non-Academic, Book Based on Experiences of Turkish-Canadian Immigrants, 2001)
Gocmen Ruhuna Acilan Pencereler: Windows to an Immigrant’s Soul
Toronto: Pristine Publications. (Editor- Non-Academic, Book Based on Experiences of Turkish-Canadian Immigrants, 2001)
A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Wife Abuse: Problems and Prospects
New Jersey: Edwin Mellen (Editor - Academic, 1997)
Women and Divorce in Canada: A Sociological Analysis
Toronto: The Canadian Scholars' Press. 328 pages (Single Author - Academic, 1992)
Violations Gender-based Risks in Women’s Lives