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Download Full Issue Spring 132020 ISSN 2148-3841 MASCULINITIES a journal of culture and society Issue 13 Spring 2020 MASCULINITIES a journal of culture and society Issue 13, Spring 2020 ISSN 2148-3841 Published by Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinities Chief Editor Selin Akyüz (Bilkent University) Typesetting Şenol Topçu Web Adresi http://www.masculinitiesjournal.org/ Contact [email protected] Masculinities: A Journal of Culture and Society is a peer-reviewed journal, published biannually (Spring and Autumn) by the Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinities. The views and opinions expressed in the articles published in Masculinities: A Journal of Culture and Society are those of the authors and and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Editorial Board of the journal. Masculinities is indexed and abstracted by SOBİAD EDITORIAL BOARD Chief Editor Selin Akyüz (Bilkent University) Editorial Board Atilla Barutçu (Bülent Ecevit University) Beril Türkoğlu (ODTÜ) Çimen Günay-Erkol (Özyegin University) Duygu Altınoluk (Kilis 7 Aralık University) Nurseli Yeşim Sünbüloğlu (Özyegin University) Özlem Duva Kaya (Dokuz Eylül University) Review Editors Gülden Sayılan (Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University) Assistant Editors Naz Hıdır (Ankara University) Şenol Topcu (Necmettin Erbakan University) *** Masculinities tarandığı dizinler Masculinities is indexed and abstracted by SOBİAD (Sosyal Bilimler Atıf Dizin ) Advisory Board Adam Walton (UCL Institute of Education) Aksu Bora (Hacettepe University) Alev Özkazanç (Professor Emerita) Alp Biricik (Independent Researcher) Arda Arıkan (Akdeniz University) Aslıhan Doğan Topcu (Mersin University) Arsev Ayşen Arslanoğlu (Artvin Çoruh University) Ayse Erbora (Okan University) Ayse L. Kirtunc (Professor Emerita) Banu Açıkgöz (Bülent Ecevit University) Berrin Koyuncu Lorasdağı (Hacettepe University) Burcu Alkan (Bahçeşehir University) Chris Haywood (Newcastle University) Cirus Rinaldi (University of Palermo) Cüneyt Çakırlar (Nottingham Trent University- Bilgi University) Çağla Ünlütürk Ulutaş (Pamukkale Üniversitesi ) Daphna Hacker (Tel Aviv University) Dilek Cindoğlu (Abdullah Gül University ) Ebru Kılıç Bebek (Özyegin University) Eda Acara (Queens University) Emel BastürkAkca (Kocaeli University) Esma Durugönül (Akdeniz University) Fatma Umut Beşpınar (METU) Feryal Cubukcu (Dokuz Eylul University) Figen Uzar Özdemir (Bülent Ecevit University) Funda Şenol Cantek (Independent Researcher) Gamze Toksoy (Mimar Sinan Univerty) Güncel Önkal (Maltepe Univerty) Hande Eslen-Ziya (Glasgow Caledonian University) Hilal Onur-Ince (Hacettepe Univerty) Jonathan Allan (Brandon University) Jeff Hearn (University of Hanken) Joseph Vandello (University of South Florida) Maria Rashid (SOAS) Melek Goregenli (Independent Researcher) Mine Özyurt Kılıç (Ankara Sosyal Bilimler University) Murat Göç (Celal Bayar University) Murat İri (Istanbul University) Nejat Ulusay (Ankara University) Nevzat Kaya (Dokuz Eylül University ) Nil Mutluer (Humboldt University zu Berlin) Nilgün Toker (Independent Researcher) Orkun Kocabıyık (Akdeniz University) Papatya Genca-Alkan (Celal Bayar University) Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney) Sandra Slater (College of Charleston) Selcuk Candansayar (Gazi University) Selim Sırı Kuru (University of Washington ) Serpil Sancar (Ankara University) Simten Coşar (Hacettepe University) Şahinde Yavuz (Karadeniz Technical University) Seref Uluocak (Onsekiz Mart University) Tingting Tan (Kyushu University) Ulaş Işıklar (Beykent University) Züleyha Çetiner Öktem (Ege University ) MASCULINITIES a journal of culture and society Year: 6, Issue: 13, Spring 2020 Content 1-3 Introduction Articles/Makaleler 5-36 Challenges Facing Men in Questioning Masculinities: A Critique of Men’s Organizing as Feminist Allies in Turkey Erkeklerin Erkeklikleri Sorgularken Yüz Yüze Kaldıkları Zorluklar: Türkiye’de Feminist Müttefikler Olarak Erkek Örgütlenmelerinin Eleştirisi Çağlar Çetin-Ayşe 37-74 “Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness:” The Question of Race and National Belonging in Safer Sex Education “Yaşam, Özgürlük ve Mutluluk Arayışı”: Güvenli Cinsellik Eğitiminde Irk ve Ulusal Aidiyet Meselesi Ivan Bujan 75-101 Masculinities at War: Rethinking Turkey’s 1968 Erkekliklerin Savaşı: Türkiye’nin 1968’lerini Yeniden Düşünmek Demet Lüküslü Research-in-Progress/Süreçteki Araştırma 103-132 An Analysis of Trans Men’s Conceptions and Navigation of Masculinity Trans Erkeklerin Erkeklik Kavramları ve Uygulamarının Bir Analizi L. Alp Akarçay Symposium Reviews/Sempozyum İncelemeleri 134-151 Putting Men and Masculinities into the Bigger Picture: A Partial Account after a Conference and a Half Jeff Hearn Book Reviews/Kitap İncelemeleri 155-160 Cihan Harbi’ni Yaşamak ve Hatırlamak: Osmanlı Askerlerinin Cephe Hatıraları ve Türkiye’de Birinci Dünya Savaşı Hafızası Çimen Günay-Erkol 160-162 Contributors to this Issue INTRODUCTION Please welcome the 13th issue of the Masculinities Journal prepared at the times of COVID-19 pandemic that the world is facing. The first COVID case in Turkey has been detected on March 10th, 2020 and we all started a “new normal” in which the social, political, physical, personal, and interpersonal lives are deconstructed through the new health practices. Our “new normals” have brought social and relational troubles in addition to economic and health-related ones. Due to stay-at-home restrictions, men’s violence against women has increased around the world, women’s home-based labour is getting more and more exhausting. Also, LGBTQ+ people face augmented vulnerabilities during the pandemic due to the already existing prejudice and discrimination, the inability of accessing health care and de- prioritization of the LGBTQ+ people for the “urgent” cases in health care systems, the restriction of access to hormonal treatments for trans people, a risk for compromised immune systems of people living with HIV/AIDS, or the psychological problems that unsupportive family- environment of LGBTQ+ people during the lockdown. However, even in this social and health emergency context, we did not want to miss an opportunity to celebrate pride month, and we do so with rainbow colours on our cover page! Currently in the stay-at-home days, we keep our hope alive. We try to unveil the dominance of masculinities by supporting our scholars to enrich the scope of the readers in critical studies of men and masculinities. It is our pleasure to present stimulating research from different sites of the world. In that sense, the 13th issue of the Masculinities Journal welcomes the readers with three research articles, one research in progress, one symposium review and one book review. The research in the current issue covers diverse topics related to -Masculinities- A Journal of Culture and Society, Spring, 2020/13, 1-3 Masculinities Journal masculinities such as masculinities at war and the 68-generation in Turkey, critical exploration of the challenges that men face as feminist allies, masculinities in safe sex education, the role of troubling times in the masculinities research, and men’s experiences at war The current issue starts with Çağlar Çetin-Ayşe’s article “Challenges Facing Men in Questioning Masculinities: A Critique of Men’s Organizing as Feminist Allies in Turkey”. In their article, Çetin-Ayşe examines the processes of how men questioning gender-inequality negotiate with their privilege and how they take a step forward to diminish gender-inequality in Turkey. Thus, Çetin-Ayşe selectively chooses men’s organizations for gender equality to represent views and struggles/confrontations of both trans and cisgender men in Turkey. Eventually, Çetin-Ayşe fruitfully presents the tension between men’s groups and feminist groups, the role of internalized sexism on this tension, and how they regulate their pro-feminist (as the author frame) experience within a social environment which is still privileged for them. In their article titled as “Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness: The Question of Race and National Belonging in Safer Sex Education”, Ivan Bujan investigates the homonationalist safer sex campaigns among gay men in the USA. Bujan questions the function of (so-called) multiculturalism with the inclusion of Black gay men in the 1990’s campaigns. Bujan uses an archival methodology to deeply examine and compare the 90s political, social, and cultural environment holistically. By doing so, Bujan sees the visual materials as performances of gender and political cultures of the era. Following this, Demet Lüküslü sheds light onto discourse behind the political movement in the 1960s and the ‘68 generation of Turkey and uses “masculinities discourse” as a keyword to understand the social and political construction of the ‘68 generation. Lüküslü reaches a conlusion that it is not only the political war existing in the 60s, but it is also a war of masculinities in the Turkish political movements. 2 Masculinities Journal In addition to these three seminal research articles, the fourth one is a research in progress presented by L. Alp Akarçay. Akarçay deeply investigates the subjective experiences of being a trans man in Turkey and how trans men perform their masculinity in relation to societal norms about masculinity. With in-depth interviews conducted with nine trans men living in İstanbul, their research opens a new door for the further interrogation of trans men’s visibility in Turkey. The current issue also presents a symposium review by Jeff Hearn and a book review by Çimen Günay-Erkol. Hearn reviews the 2nd
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