Erkek dergilerini okumak: Dergilerin içeriği, ideolojisi ve okurları üzerine bir değerlendirme

ÖzetErkek dergilerinin küresel olarak popülerliğini artırması, dergilerin erkekliği ve erkeklerinasıl inşa ve temsil ettiğini inceleyebilmek için önemli bir fırsat sunmakta ve söz konusufırsatı iyi değerlendiren akademik alanyazın öncelikle kültürel bir metin ve kültürel bir olguolarak erkek dergilerine odaklanmaktadır. Bu çalışmada da, özellikle kültürel bir metin vekültürel bir olgu olarak erkek dergilerinin içeriğine, ideolojisine ve okurlarına odaklanılmak-tadır. Bununla birlikte hem erkekliğin hem de erkeklere özgü davranışların, tutumların vehazların inşa ve temsil edildiği popüler bir medya alanı ya da türü olarak erkek dergilerineilişkin görüşler sunulmaktadır. Ayrıca, dergilerin tamamen ana akım araçlar olup olmadığıya da modern erkeklere (yeni) erkeklik ya da erkek kimliği modellerini önerip önermediğiaraştırılmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, dergilerin içeriğine, ideolojisine ve okurlarına odak-lanarak, erkek dergilerinde, erkekliğin ve erkeklerin, toplumsal cinsiyetin, erkek kimliğininve heteroseksüelliğin nasıl inşa ve temsil edildiğini belirlemek ve bir erkek dergileri tipolojisisunmaktır. Ancak, bu çalışma, özgün bir alan çalışması değil, bir alanyazın değerlendirme -sidir. Bu amaçla, çalışmada, küresel medya grupları tarafından yayımlanan ve uluslarara -sı erkek dergileri pazarında satışa sunulan erkek dergileri ile ilgili bir alanyazın taramasıgerçekleştirilmektedir. Bu bağlamda, çalışma, kültürel bir metin ve kültürel bir olgu olarakerkek dergilerinin modern toplumda oynadıkları rolü sorgulamakta, kadınsılıktan ve homo-seksüellikten kaçınan erkek dergilerinde üretilen cinsiyetçi söylem(ler) aracılığıyla, toplum-sal cinsiyetin, erkek kimliğinin ve heteroseksüelliğin nasıl meşrulaştırıldığını gözler önünesermektedir.

Reading men s magazines: A study on Content, ideology and readers of magazines

The increasing global popularity of men s magazines offers a unique opportunity to studyhow magazines construct and represent masculinity and men, and academic literature thatuse this opportunity primarily focuses on men s magazines as a cultural text and as a culturalphenomenon. The study particularly focuses upon content, ideology and readers of the men smagazines as a cultural text and as a cultural phenomenon. However, it presents views inrelation to men s magazines as a popular media site or type which builds and represents bothmasculinity, and behaviors, attitudes and pleasures peculiar to men. Also, it seeks whetherthey are simply mainstream tools or whether they are offering models of (new) masculinityor male identity to modern men. The objective of the study is to determine how masculinity,men, gender, male identity and heterosexuality are built and represented in men s magazinesand to present a typology of men s magazines, focusing upon content, ideology and readersof the magazines. But, this study isn t an individual feldwork, it s a literature evaluation. Tothis end, a literature review has been conducted on men s magazines that have been published by the global media groups and put on the international men s magazine market. In thiscontext, the study examines what role men s magazines play in modern society as a culturaltext and a cultural phenomenon, and reveals how gender, male identity and heterosexualityare legitimated through sexist discourse(s) produced in men s magazines which eschew femininity and homosexuality.

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