Akyüz, Selin2016-01-082016-01-082012http://hdl.handle.net/11693/15299Ankara : The Department of Political Science, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2012.Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Bilkent University, 2012.Includes bibliographical references leaves 206-222.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.xiv, 222 leavesEnglishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessgendermasculinitiespolitical partiesAKPCHPMHPTurkish politicsKemalismIslamnationalismBourdieuDR603 .A592 2012Political culture--Turkey--History--20th century.Masculinity--Political aspects--Turkey--History--20th century.Sex role--Political aspects--Turkey--History--20th century.Politicians--Turkey--Psychology.Thesis