Linguistic taboo, ideology, and erasure: Reproducing homophobia as norm and lesbianism as stigma in women's football in Turkey

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dc.contributor.authorNuhrat, Yagmur
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:47:29Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:47:29Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractWomen's football (soccer) in Turkey is an introverted community of practice with linguistic practices and ideologies that maintain homophobia as norm. The word lesbian is taboo and substituted with shorthaired, and lesbian identity is erased as wannabe manliness. Homosexuality appears acceptable (through erasure) only when women self-present as normatively feminine, and such propriety is class related. The linguistic taboo is fractured if interlocutor footing shifts vis-a-vis researcher expectations. However, the very moments when linguistic taboo is fractured reveal homophobia as the reigning norm. Given the larger political context in Turkey where queer identity and existence are threatened, the workings of linguistic ideology, linguistic taboo, and homophobia in women's football raise the stakes for queer footballers regarding how they may claim sexual identities. This article is based on four months of fieldwork in 2019 and 2020, mostly in Istanbul, with current and former footballers, coaches, media representatives, and club and federation administrators.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/aman.13695
dc.identifier.endpage153en_US
dc.identifier.issn0002-7294
dc.identifier.issn1548-1433
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85123600549en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage141en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13695
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/7811
dc.identifier.volume124en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000746082500001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAmerican Anthropologisten_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectWomen's Footballen_US
dc.subjectLinguistic Tabooen_US
dc.subjectHomophobiaen_US
dc.subjectSelf-Reflexivityen_US
dc.subjectLinguistic İdeology And Erasureen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectCommunityen_US
dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.titleLinguistic taboo, ideology, and erasure: Reproducing homophobia as norm and lesbianism as stigma in women's football in Turkey
dc.typeArticle

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