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Item Clinical and sociodemographic differences in adult women and men with obsessive-compulsive disorder(Yerküre Tanıtım & Yayıncılık Hizmetleri A.Ş., 2024) Çoban, Deniz Adnan; Tan, Oğuz; Gündoğmuş, İbrahimObjective: Gender is related to differences in the prevalences, manifestations and comorbidities of mental disorders. Findings on the effect of sex on adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are limited and inconsistent. We aimed to compare male and females with OCD in a large sample of adults. Methods: We included 559 patients with OCD (299 females, 50.68%). We employed the Yale-Brown Obsession and Compulsion Scale (Y-BOCS), Hamilton Depression Rating Scale-17 (HDRS-17) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). We gathered data about the onset of illness, the years of education, marital status, long-term unemployment, history of hospitalization and suicide attempts, lifetime attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), tic disorder, alcohol use disorder (AUD), substance use disorder (SUD), smoking and symptom dimensions. Results: The Y-BOCS, HDRS-17 and BAI scores were significantly higher in women. Men were characterized by earlier onset of OCD, younger age, longer years of education, higher prevalence of past or current tic disorders and higher frequency of AUD/SUD and smoking. Ratio of being married was higher among women whereas most of males were never-married. History of suicide attempt was more common among women. Conclusion: Our research offers additional support for variations in clinical characteristics of OCD based on gender. It is essential to investigate the biological foundation of gender differences on OCD.Item Intimate politics: strategies and practices of female Mukhtars in Turkey(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2018) Yıldırım, Senem; Uçaray-Mangıtlı, Burcu; Tas, HakkıThe dualistic separation between the public and private assumes natural and stable boundaries between these spheres. However, a perspective that relies on binaries may deprive certain groups, practices and processes associated with specific spheres from diverse experiences. For instance, women wanting to move from the private sphere and join the political public could not do that due to the domesticated nature of their roles and responsibilities. However, those who do manage to become agents of political activity do so by developing strategies and practices that are context specific. This article examines how the boundaries between the public and private are traversed in Turkish local politics through the mentioned context-specific experiences. It identifies the ways in which female mukhtars in Turkey engage in politics through practices of intimization as a political strategy, which accounts for the strategies and practices of degendering and regendering. The analysis of data from interviews with 20 randomly selected female mukhtars reveals that female mukhtars successfully navigate a versatile strategy of degendering and regendering. In this regard, they may highlight career-defined and gender-neutral attributes or valorize the masculine imperatives of the public domain. They may also affirm and assert their feminine qualities depending on the context.
