Browsing by Subject "Masculinity"

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Fictions of masculinites in Ottoman literature (17th, 18th, 19th centuries)
(2016-06) Gökpınar, Bahar
The primary purpose of this dissertation is to understad the changing fictions of masculinites in Ottoman literature, especially poems of 17th , 18th, 19th centuries. In this way, 7 literary works which reflects the social alternations were chosen. The critical elements and altering factors related to masculinities were evaluated. In these elements, there are desire, love, power, rulership, acknowledgment of sex, physical beauty, concern of aesthetics, obscenity, fatherhood, being a husband and social roles. Homoerotic love had an important place in this study while the fictions of masculinites were searching. In the first chapter of this theses the masculinity studies were elucidated. In the second chapter, the masnavis written before 17th century were investigated. Thereby a path was formed for changing fictions of masculinites. Third chapter was composed of texts analysis. In the last part of the study the existence of women poets in Ottoman poetry and their masculinization process in literary tradition was debated.
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Manhood deprived and (Re)constructed during conflicts and international prosecutions : the curious case of the prosecutor v. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta et al.
(Kluwer Law International, 2016) Turan, G.
Recent case law on sexual violence crimes heard before the ad hoc international criminal tribunals and courts, that interpret them in connection with ethnic conflict, raises the question of which acts can be defined as sexual violence. The International Criminal Court (ICC), in the situation of Kenya, does not regard acts of forced nudity, forcible circumcision and penile amputation as sexual violence when they are motivated by ethnic prejudice and intended to demonstrate the cultural superiority of one tribe over another. The Court argues that not every act of violence that targets parts of the body commonly associated with sexuality should be considered an act of sexual violence. This recent interpretation of what counts as sexual violence provides another example of the complicity of international criminal law institutions in the ongoing construction process of female subordination. The ICC, in the Kenya situation, implicitly confirms the mutilation of female agency by interpreting penile amputation as a kind of power game between males, and by instrumentalizing the male sexual organ as an indicator of masculinity and manhood. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
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Masculinities in Yılmaz Güney's star image in the 1960s and 1970s
(2012-05) Koçer, Zeynep
The dissertation approaches Yılmaz Güney as a social event and a phenomenon. It argues that Güney created a male Anatolian myth with his on-screen and off-screen masculinities, his physical difference from other Yeşilçam star and his moralistic attitude toward women. In order to investigate this myth, the dissertation historicizes Güney's star image within the socia-economic and political discourses of the 1960s and 1970s and points to an ambivalence, which stems from the contradictions in Güney's star image. The dissertations aims to demostrate this ambivalence in Güney's star image by discussing the ordinary and extra-ordinary characteristic of stardom and the socio-economic and political ramifications of the late-republican modernization project.
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Murathan Mungan öykülerinde ulusal erkeklikler
(2021-05) Koçak, Gizem
Bu çalışmada Murathan Mungan öykülerindeki krizdeki ulusal erkeklik temsillerinin ulus-devlet ideolojisinin normatif erkeklik ideallerine müdahale içeren erkeklik temsilleri olduğunu tartışıyorum. Bu bağlamda ulus-devletler için cinsiyetli ve itaatli özneler üretme amacının bir parçası haline gelen performativitenin Mungan metinlerinde krizdeki ulusal erkekliklere alternatif oluşturan oluş halinde, sınırları belirsizleşmiş ve hibrit bedenlenme deneyimlerine dayalı insan sonrası erkeklik olanakları sunduğunu gösteriyorum. Mungan öykülerinin yakın okumaya dayalı analizi yoluyla bu çalışmada erkekliğin ulus-devletin öngördüğü gibi sabit bir cinsiyet kategorisi olmadığını ve tartışmasız bir güç ve ayrıcalık konumunu temsil etmediğini öne sürüyorum.
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Orhan Pamuk'un romanlarında erkeğin iktidarı
(2014) Sağlam, Müzeyyen
Power of men in the novels of one of the most important representative of postmodernist Turkish novels, Orhan Pamuk has never been entirely addressed in any study before. However much the female characters and the way of depicting the female characters in the novels of Orhan Pamuk have been the subject of two theses and many articles, the masculine characters and the hegemony of these characters on the women have always been ignored. Thus, the main objective of this thesis, “Power of Men” is to fill this gap in literature studies. For the purpose of ensuring that this study is more encompassing and that it reaches more objective results, all novels of Orhan Pamuk (Mr. Cevdet and His Sons, the Silent House, the Black Book, New Life, My Name is Red, Snow and the Museum of Innocence) have been included in this study. Within the scope of the first chapter of the thesis “Theoretical Background”, the gender theory has been described and the development of this theory in the world and in Turkey has been addressed so as to ensure better understanding of discussions on “masculinity” and “hegemonic masculinity”. The main focus of the second chapter “Being a Man in the Novels of Orhan Pamuk”, is the male characters who have been ignored in the literature studies. In this chapter, the impact of traditional society and the family structure on the formation, development and transfer of the masculine identity and power; the practices in public area and the role of interaction between two genders in this process have been discussed. In addition, it has also been touched upon the positioning of the female characters in the development process of the masculine power in the novels and the roles of the female characters in the novels observed with regard to the hegemonic masculinity relations. As a result of all these observation it has been determined that Orhan Pamuk, despite introducing a different perspective to the Turkish novels, still follows the traditional way of writing about the development process of masculine identity and masculine power.