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A special issue of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies This
issue provides an area-studies perspective on intimacy and explores
the analytic, theoretical, and political work that intimacy
promises as a concept. The contributors explore how multiple
domains and forms of intimacies are defined and transformed across
the cultural and social worlds of the Middle East, looking in
particular at Egypt, Turkey, and Israel. Focusing on everyday
constructions of intimacies, the contributors engage with questions
about how we should calibrate the evolving nature of intimacy in
times of rapid transition, what intimacy means for individual and
social lives, and what social, political, and economic
possibilities it creates. Topics include physical exercise, Turkish
beauty salons, transnational surrogacy arrangements, gender
reassignment, and coffee shops as intimate spaces for men outside
the family. Article Contributors: Aymon Kreil, Claudia Liebelt,
Sibylle Lustenberger, Sertac Sehlikoglu, Asli Zengin Review and
Third Space Contributors: Dena Al-Adeeb, Adam George Dunn, Rima
Dunn, Meral Duzgun, Iklim Goksel, Didem Havlioglu, Sarah Ihmoud,
Sarah Irving, Adi Kuntsman, Shahrzad Mojab, Afsaneh Najmabadi,
Rachel Rothendler, Afiya Zia
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.
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.
Using a cross-cultural perspective, The Everyday Makings of
Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and
Sexuality examines the conceptual formulation of heteronormativity
and highlights the mundane operations of its construction in
diverse contexts. Heterosexual culture simultaneously
institutionalizes its narrations and normalcies, operating in a way
that preserves its own coherency. Heteronormativity gains its
privileges and coherency through public operations and the
mutuality of the public and private spheres. The contributors to
this edited collection examine this coherency and privilege and
explore in ethnographic detail the operations and making of
heteronormative devices: material, affective, narrative, spatial,
and bodily. This book is recommended for students and scholars of
anthropology, sociology, and gender and sexuality studies.
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