“The Janissaries and their bedfellows: Masculinity and male friendship in eighteenth-century Ottoman Istanbul."
- Submitting institution
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University of the Arts, London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 198
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures
- Publisher
- Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) and Ashgate Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781472414526
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This chapter builds on the author’s PhD thesis and previous research on fashion, masculinity and male homosexuality in the Ottoman Middle East, with the latter consisting of a co-edited book on Queer politics and cultures in Turkey (2012, in Turkish, published by Metis Publications, Istanbul) and a co-authored book, published by Damiani & the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York (2013). Subsequently, the author was invited by editor, Professor Gul Ozyegin of The College of William & Mary, Virginia, US, to contribute this chapter, which relies on original, previously unexplored archival documents found in the Ottoman State Archives in Istanbul.
The history of sexuality in the Ottoman Middle East has a special political significance for the LGBTI+ organisations in contemporary Turkey. Research conducted in order to write this chapter contributed to lectures during two conferences organised by Turkish LGBTI+ activists in 2014 and 2015, where the author was invited to discuss the importance of historical archives in the struggle against homophobia and heteronormativity. The book itself was widely reviewed in several academic journals
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- Non-English
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