Working out desire : women, sport, and self-making in Istanbul / Sertaç Sehlikoglu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sehlikoglu, Sertaç, author.

Series:

Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Turkey--Identity.

Women.

Self-perception in women--Turkey.

Self-perception in women.

Exercise for women--Social aspects--Turkey.

Exercise for women.

Women--Turkey--Social conditions.

Social aspects.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Turkey.

Social conditions.

Sports--Sociological aspects.

Sports.

Women--Identity.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xvii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In "Working Out Desire," Sehlikoglu 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Self

1. Forming An Object Of Desire

2. Desiring Istanbulite Women

3. Mediating Desires

Space

4. Leisurely Istanbul

5. Men-Free Exercise

6. Homosociality And The Female Gaze

Time

7. Embodied Rhythms And Self-Time

8. Gendered Temporalities

9. Emanet Corporalities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sehlikoglu, Sertaç. Working out desire.

ISBN:

9780815636939

0815636938

9780815636953

0815636954

OCLC:

1126558695