Abstract
This study explores how the sexual identity and practices of the koceks, who were positioned in the entertainment field in 17th Century Ottoman Istanbul, were socially constructed and how these practices had been well understood in the social sphere of the era. For this purpose, gender roles and practices of Koceks' in this period are discussed in instrumentalised body concept and dance field. The field and habitus approach of Bourdieu has been used to understand the relationship between the gender roles of the koceks and the appreciation of this style by different social positions/classes/groups. As a result, their body and sexual identities had been accepted, and their dances had enabled koceks to have an important position in the entertainment field by being among the tastes and preferences of the different social groups in the social space. In this sense, gender roles of koceks had multi-component structure and cannot be easily understood over the male and female duality.
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Kapsamı
Uluslararası
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Type
Hakemli
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Index info
WOS.SSCI
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Language
English
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Article Type
None
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Keywords
space of entertainment and show kocek dance body habitus gender roles