Current ıssues

The 14th issue of Masculinities: A Journal of Culture and Society is published at the same time as a new wave of MeToo movement in Turkey. Women in literary and publishing circles have been sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and exposing names of men in the same circles who harassed them. As members of the Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinities (ICSM) and the Editorial Board of Masculinities Journal, we would like to start this introduction by stating that we stand by these women who have courageously opened up a space for discussion of gender norms conducing to harassment and gender-based violence. 

Please welcome the 13th issue of the Masculinities Journal prepared at the times of COVID-19 pandemic that the world is facing. The first COVID case in Turkey has been detected on March 10th, 2020 and we all started a “new normal” in which the social, political, physical, personal, and interpersonal lives are deconstructed through the new health practices. Our “new normals” have brought social and relational troubles in addition to economic and health-related ones.

Özyeğin Üniversitesi, Eleştirel Erkeklik İncelemeleri İnisiyatifi (EEİİ) ve Research Worldwide İstanbul işbirliğinde ve Raoul Wallenberg Enstitüsü’nün desteği ile 10-11 Mayıs 2019 tarihlerinde İstanbul'da Türkiye’de Erkeklik Çalışmaları: Sorunlar ve İmkânlar Calıştayı gerçekleştirilecektir.

Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinities (ICSM) cordially invites proposals for the 2nd International Symposium on Men and Masculinities to take place between 12th and 14th September in İstanbul, Turkey, in collaboration with Özyeğin University, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, and Research Worldwide İstanbul.

“Discourse Workshop on Masculinity, Trauma and Violence” was organized by Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinities with the support of Sivil Düşün on October 8-9, 2016 in İstanbul.