Queering Sexualities in Turkey - Gay Men, Male Prostitutes and the City

Despite its some of its more liberal and democratic characteristics - when compared to many other countries in the Middle East - the more conservative elements within Turkish politics and society have made gains over the past decades. As a result, like many others in the region, Turkish society has multiple standards when naming, evaluating and reacting to men who have sex with men. Cenk Ozbay argues that overall, self-identified gay men (as well as men who practice clandestine same-sex acts) are most of the time marginalised, ostracised and rendered 'immoral' in both everyday practices and social institutions. He offers in this book an analysis of the concept of masculinity as central to redefining boundaries of class, gender and sexuality, particularly looking at the dynamics between self-identified gay men and straight-acting male prostitutes, or 'rent boys'. A result of in-depth interviews with both self-identified gay men and rent boys, Ozbay explores the changing discourses and meaning of class, gender and queer sexualities, and how these three are embedded within urban and familial narratives.

List of contents

List of Photographs
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Queering Sexualities in Turkey
1. Sexuality, Masculinity and Male Sex Work
2. Rent Boys and the Contours of Exaggerated Masculinity
3. Rent Boys' Intimacies in Neoliberal Times
4. Queer in the Spatial, Temporal and Social Margins
5. Contemporary Male Sex Work
Conclusion: Perverse Mobilities and Deviant Careers
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Product details

• Authors: 214, Cenk OEzbay, Cenk Ozbay, Cenk Özbay, Cenk zbay
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2017
• EAN: 9781784533175
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-317-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Library of Modern Turkey; Turkey; Library of Modern Turkey; Turkey
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Türkei, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, Gender Studies, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies