Being one of the prominent female storytellers of the 1950s generation, Tomris Uyar did not stay out of life in her fiction and shed light on the problems of society after individual themes. The author touches on the individual's loneliness, depression, stance against the dictated tradition, dilemmas, tiredness and injustice by filtering into the inner world of the individual. But mostly within the individual, 'woman' is in her focus. The author does not only mention women who are marginalized and left alone in his stories. Among her heroines are well-educated and strong women who stand on their feet. But the writer does not ignore the violence the woman experiences in society, regardless of her position. Because in this period, the view of women gained a different momentum in the course of Turkish literature. Especially the issues created by the gender discrimination in the patriarchal society, which came out of the pen of women writers, found their place in the stories of Tomris Uyar. Our aim is to reveal the aspects and how the author reflects this phenomenon by using feminist criticism, which is a reader-centered theory.

Tomris Uyar, violence, violence against women, feminist criticism.