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New Desires, New Selves - Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth (Paperback)
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New Desires, New Selves - Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth (Paperback)
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As Turkey pushes for its place in the global pecking order and
embraces neoliberal capitalism, the nation has seen a period of
unprecedented shifts in political, religious, and gender and sexual
identities for its citizens. In New Desires, New Selves, Gul
Ozyegin shows how this social transformation in Turkey is felt most
strongly among its young people, eager to surrender to the
seduction of sexual modernity, but also longing to remain attached
to traditional social relations, identities and histories. Engaging
a wide array of upwardly-mobile young adults at a major Turkish
university, Ozyegin links the biographies of individuals with the
biography of a nation, revealing their creation of conflicted
identities in a country which has existed uneasily between West and
East, modern and traditional, and secular and Islamic. For these
young people, sexuality, gender expression, and intimate
relationships in particular serve as key sites for reproducing and
challenging patriarchy and paternalism that was hallmark of earlier
generations. As Ozyegin evocatively shows, the quest for sexual
freedom and an escape from patriarchal constructions of selfless
femininity and protective masculinity promise both personal
transformations and profound sexual guilt and anxiety. A poignant
and original study, New Desires, New Selves presents a snapshot of
cultural change on the eve of rapid globalization in the Muslim
world.
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