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Men who desire to conquer: romantic love and masculinity among some young professionals

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Sociology.
dc.contributor.advisor Sirman, Nükhet,
dc.contributor.author Sarı, Umut.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T12:31:30Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T12:31:30Z
dc.date.issued 2004.
dc.identifier.other SOC 2004 S27
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/17461
dc.description.abstract The aim of this study is to understand how masculinity is constructed in the way some well-educated male professionals in their early adulthood in contemporary Turkey describe love. The study is based on seven in-depth interviews conducted between May 2003 and July 2003 in Istanbul.This study analyzes romantic love first at the level of emotions, and second at the level of couple relationships. Passion and powerlessness were found to be the two constitutive emotions in the participants' definition of love. The desire to conquer was identified as the primary leitmotif in their narratives. The participants wish to end their relationships as they think that they conquered the loved women, and to fall in love as many women as possible. The way that participants describe love is inherent with a specific form of male power that objectifies women. The participants imagine their gender identities as modern masculine arguing that their couple relationships are based on equality. As a way of performing this modern masculinity, they condemn the controlling of women's sexuality through the codes of honor in Turkey and introduce trusting one another to replace the code of honor. The fact that women will be sanctioned if they live according to the same definition of love based on conquest due to the patriarchal structure of Turkish society was never thought of.
dc.format.extent 30cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.subject.lcsh Masculinity.
dc.subject.lcsh Sex role -- Turkey.
dc.subject.lcsh Man-woman relationships.
dc.title Men who desire to conquer: romantic love and masculinity among some young professionals
dc.format.pages vii, 98 leaves;


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