

Bullying and Teasing Social Power in Children's Groups. Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. Okuma Notları: Dokunma Dersleri, Yalçın Tosun. From Hegemonic Masculinity to the Hegemony of Men. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism. Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory. Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Ĭonnell R.W. Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet: Lesbian and Gay Displacement. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”. Gender Trouble: Feminism and Subversion of Identity. California: University of California Press.īutler J. Disrupted Lives: How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World. As a result, it is revealed that in Yalçın Tosun's short stories, LGBTI sexual identities are handled outsideof discriminatory mechanisms and the concept of LGBTI identity is effectively represented, and that traditional roles of patriarchal femininity and masculinity are disrupted and reconstructed.īecker G. In this regard, four stories from the author's books (Kıpırtılı Bir Yorgan, Madam Marini’nin Tamamlanmış Bir Resmi, Kucak Delisi, Siyah Külot) are analyzed with a focus on the reflections on LGBTI genderidentities.

The purpose of this study is to elaborate the ways in which the elements of LGBTI identity are handled and the ways of gender constructed in Yalçın Tosun's short stories.

The author focuses on normative phenomena related to the gender roles, femininity and masculinity, the mechanisms of social oppression and stereotypical thoughts in traditional patriarchial society. In his short stories, Yalçın Tosun opened the given gender roles to discussion by dealing with gender in many ways.

Gender, identity construction, LGBTI identity, text analysis, Yalçın Tosun, contemporary Turkish literature Abstract
