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Working Out Desire - Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul (Paperback)
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Working Out Desire - Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul (Paperback)
Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
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Working Out Desire examines spor meraki as an object of desire
shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women.
Sehlikoglu follows the lat est anthropological scholarship that
defines desire beyond the moment it is felt, experienced, or even
yearned for, and as something that is formed through a series of
social and historical makings. She traces Istanbulite women's
ever-increasing interest in exercise not merely to an interest in
sport, but also to an interest in establishing a new self - one
that attempts to escape from conventional feminine duties - and an
investment in forming a more agentive, desiring, self. Working Out
Desire develops a multilayered analysis of how women use spor
meraki to take themselves out of the domestic zone physically,
emotionally, and also imaginatively. Sehlikoglu pushes back against
the conventional boundaries of scholarly interest in Muslim women
as pious subjects. Instead, it places women's desiring subjectivity
at its center and traces women's agentive aspirations in the way
they bend the norms which are embedded in the multiple patriarchal
ideologies (i.e. nationalism, religion, aesthetics) which operate
on their selves. Working out Desire presents the ways in which
women's changing habits, leisure, and self-formation in the Muslim
world and the Middle East are connected to their agentive
capacities to shift and transform their conditions and
socio-cultural capabilities.
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