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Gendered Fortunes : Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey / Zeynep K. Korkman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Korkman, Zeynep K., 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam and social problems--Turkey.
- Islam and social problems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- 2023.
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "Gendered Fortunes approaches the proliferating fortunetelling economy of millennial Turkey as an affective window on the gendered contradictions of (post)secularism, Islamist authoritarianism, and neoliberalism. The book ethnographically details how secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate their secular anxieties, gendered vulnerabilities, and economic precarities through divination."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Gendered fortunes
- Crimes of divination
- The gendered politics of secularism
- Feeling postsecular
- Feeling publics of femininity
- The joys and perils of intimacy
- Feeling labors of divination
- Entrepreneurial fortunes
- Feminist divinations.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Duke University Press, viewed May 26, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9781478093558
- OCLC:
- 1357548287
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