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      Political manhood in 2000's Turkey : representations of different masculinities in politics

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      Author(s)
      Akyüz, Selin
      Advisor
      Cindoğlu, Dilek
      Date
      2012
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      Bilkent University
      Language
      English
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      Thesis
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      This dissertation mainly questions the constructions of different masculinities in politics in Turkey. It re-reads the different representations of political manhood with reference to the AKP, the CHP and the MHP between 2000 and 2008. In order to reveal the embeddedness of masculinities and politics, this dissertation analyzes not only gendered discourses of the given political parties but also their leaders, namely, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Deniz Baykal and Devlet Bahçeli. With the guidance of Pierre Bourdieu’s analytical tools, especially, on the basis of the congruent relation between habitus and the field, this dissertation questions different representations of masculinities and identifies typologies of masculinities, namely ; (1) Neo-Muslim, (2) Kemalist/Secular, and, (3) Nationalist. With reference to the patterns of masculinities in Turkish political culture, this study argues that the gendered nature of the politics, in general, political parties in particular, use and reproduce dominant masculinist strategies. In politics as a field, leaders experience the praxis of being man rather than their ideological engagements; leftist, rightist or Islamist.
      Keywords
      gender
      masculinities
      political parties
      AKP
      CHP
      MHP
      Turkish politics
      Kemalism
      Islam
      nationalism
      Bourdieu
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/15299
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