Gender as a Performative Act in Urban Spaces: Non-Verbal Marks of Masculinity & Femininity
Women’s seclusion and hegemonic oppression on the subjugation of
women can alternatively be well understood in contrastive analysis of how
masculinities and femininities come in a clash in public spheres and urban
spaces. In this regard, this text will provide a sequence of ethnographic
analyses on urban events and celebrations, public spaces and gendered
interactions through non-verbal marks so that what’s deemed as socially
appropriate or improper are vividly presented. The main objective of
this compact ethnographic analysis is that the subordinate femininities
must be unearthed so that there could be a hope for a social cessation of
internalization of both the seclusion and subjugation of female members
of the subject society. The case instances are drawn from such a society,
Turkey, which has a fluctuant politics of gender and where the society
is stigmatized with the ongoing repercussions of post-colonial identity
collision.
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