The body unburdened : violence, emotions, and the new woman in Turkey /

Drawing on research that combines an ethnography of a new group of women from popular classes in today's Turkey and a study of vigilante violence against these women, including interviews and court files, The Body Unburdened offers a compelling explanation for the surge of hostility against wom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sarioglu, Esra (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2023].
Series:Issues of globalization.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The New Woman Feeling Her Way in Turkey
  • Origins of the New Woman: The Cultural Politics of Embarrassment and Its Changing Legal Status in Turkey
  • The New Woman at Work: Global Capitalism and the Gendered World of the Service Economy
  • Tables Turning Against the New Woman: The Rise of Moralist Politics
  • The New Woman in the Gezi Uprising: A New Political Actor or a Violable Subject?
  • The New Woman against the Vigilante Man: Violence, Orientations, and
  • Disorientations
  • Conclusion and Epilogue: The New Woman and Feminism in Uncertain Time.