Precarious and Gendered Work: Educator Men at Preschools in Turkey (Bilgit, 2020)

Abstract: The urban preschools in Turkey, the first cycle and a significant part of the larger neoliberal education market, are places where usually you can only peek-a-boo as an adult. My fieldwork in Istanbul focuses on how educator men navigate performances of gender and carework in a heavily gendered atmosphere. Within the workforce dominated by …

Challenging Prescribed Identities: A Discourse Analysis of Sexual Orientation Based Identity Narratives in Turkish Mental Health Literature (Bilgit, 2018)

Abstract The normative sexuality dictated by gender regimes has been problematized especially in recent decades by medical and social science scholars in Turkey. This article specifically focuses on the course of change in mental health discourses written in the Turkish Language in terms of sexual orientation based identity narrative formations. To reveal the elusiveness of …