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Class and Habitus in the Formation of Gay Identities, Masculinities, and Respectability in Turkey
Date
2017-07-01
Author
Ural, Haktan
Beşpınar Akgüner, Fatma Umut
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This article examines how gay men engage with masculine respectability in urban Turkey. Our analysis of twenty-four in-depth interviews in Ankara shows that gay men's self-presentation generally conforms to the expectations of masculine appearance and behavior in their class-based social circles. Thus we argue that social class and habitus are important for the norms of masculine respectability with a marked difference between lower-class/traditional middle-class and professional middle-class milieus. While family-dependent gay men in the lower class and traditional middle class often conform to hegemonic masculinity through their "family guy" performances and limit their sexual desires, professional middle-class gay men mobilize their social, economic, and cultural capital to carve out a gay life where they can perform a "sophisticated" gay identity and participate in a gay community, albeit in certain permitted domains.
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Gay identity
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Masculinity
,
Respectability
,
Habitus
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35814
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JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMENS STUDIES
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https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3861323
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Department of Sociology, Article
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H. Ural and F. U. Beşpınar Akgüner, “Class and Habitus in the Formation of Gay Identities, Masculinities, and Respectability in Turkey,”
JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMENS STUDIES
, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 244–264, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35814.