Passing and coming out are two divergent individual strategies historically associated with
the LGBTQ+ community as they struggle to fit in with normative expectations at work and in …

Today Turkey is one of the few Muslim-majority countries in which same-sex sexual acts,
counternormative sexual identities, and expressions of gender nonconformism are not …

Women's perspective is mostly neglected in masculinity studies; moreover, there is still a
strong need to better understand culturally diverse perceptions of masculinity. This …

Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform post-uprising Syrian drama for various …

This article advances literature on reflexive habitus in relation to LGB people by
demonstrating empirically that habitus and reflexivity can coexist, albeit in very complex …

This study explores the possibility of critical agency of queer subjects in Turkey in terms of
challenging and subverting normative structural constraints. These constraints are attested …

The challenges faced by the families of choice of LGBTQs when confronted with the
heteronormative structure of family in society have already been covered at length, both in …

This paper discusses the power differentials between various gay men that shape the
construction of multiple unequal gay masculinities in South Africa. I argue that there is no …

Quantitative data such as time-use surveys indicate that women in Turkey continue to devote
a disproportionate amount of time to unpaid domestic labor. According to these statistics, the …

Problematizing the taken-for-granted definitions and roles standardizing and normalizing the
heteronormative nuclear family, from the critical perspective of Queer Theory, this study …