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Special Section: Sustainable Patriarchy in Turkey

‘Make masculinity great again’: politics of marriage and neoconservatism in Turkey’s Islamic-oriented self-help discourse

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Pages 280-300 | Received 15 Mar 2022, Accepted 05 Dec 2022, Published online: 01 Feb 2023

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