Shifts in sexual desire: bans on dancing boys (koceks) throughout Ottoman modernity (1800s-1920s)

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dc.contributor.authorAvcı, Mustafa
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-15T12:36:48Z
dc.date.available2021-05-15T12:36:48Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.departmentİktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Sosyoloji Bölümüen_US
dc.descriptionAvci, Mustafa/0000-0002-5802-8036
dc.description.abstractThe main objective of this article is to understand the ways in which the kocek (dancing boys) performance became a source of shame and how the practice was subjected to a number of bans in Ottoman Istanbul. In the literature on the kocek, there is a general trend that argues that the practice was banned because of the fights, quarrels and other disputes related to the koceks and that the practice disappeared altogether no later than 1856. This is what I call the social disorders argument' and while I acknowledge that history and examine some evidence of social disorders associated with the dancing boys, I also re-analyse the disorders arising from a powerful homoerotic desire that was so common as to even be normative in certain circles in the Ottoman era. In this article, through historical evidence, I show that there are a number of proscriptions against the koceks. Through a brief history of the bans from the sixteenth century onwards, I show the ways in which the mentality of the bans changed during the Westernization/modernization period and how shame from homoeroticism became a significant determinant in the bans of the nineteenth century.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00263206.2017.1291425
dc.identifier.endpage781en_US
dc.identifier.issn0026-3206
dc.identifier.issn1743-7881
dc.identifier.issue5en_US
dc.identifier.startpage762en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2017.1291425
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12939/406
dc.identifier.volume53en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000404013500005
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.institutionauthorAvcı, Mustafa
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofMiddle Eastern Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subject1800s-1920sen_US
dc.subjectOttoman Modernityen_US
dc.titleShifts in sexual desire: bans on dancing boys (koceks) throughout Ottoman modernity (1800s-1920s)
dc.typeArticle

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