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Refashioning Muslims : Women Between the New Conservatism and Neoliberalism in Istanbul /

A rare account of neoliberal Muslim female subjectivity in Turkey's elite Islamic bourgeois circles.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kütük-Kuriş, Merve
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]
Series:Critiquing Gender and Islam
Subjects:
Women in Islam > Turkey.
Muslim women > Turkey.
RELIGION / Islam / General.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION: SAME OLD DEBATES, NEW SOCIAL AGENTS
  • 1 Rethinking Muslim Women's Agency
  • 2 The Politics of Gender in Modern Turkey
  • 3 A Style of One's Own
  • 4 Diversifying 'Muslim Chic'
  • 5 The New Islamic Leisure Sites and The Making of Cosmopolitan Muslim Selves
  • 6 Helping the Poor in Splendour
  • 7 Balancing Work and Family: Happy Medium or Dual Strain?
  • CONCLUSION: THE WOMEN OF MANY TALENTS: NEW BOURGEOIS MUSLIM WOMEN UNDER THE AKP
  • Appendix I Interlocutors
  • Appendix II Cyber-Ethnography and Short Encounters
  • References
  • INDEX