New Desires, New Selves : : Sex, Love, and Piety among Turkish Youth / / Gul Ozyegin.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 7 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Virginal Façades
  • Passive Resistance and Class in Lesbian Self-Making: Alev’s Story
  • 2. Making a New Man: Recognition, Romance, Sex, and Neoliberal Masculinity
  • Vulnerable Masculinity and Self-Transformation: Ali’s Story
  • 3. New Pious Female Selves: The Feminist “Vein” Within and the Troubling Gender Divide
  • Becoming a Sade Pious Woman in a Secular Society: Aknur’s Story
  • 4. Desire between “Doing” and “Being”: İbne (Faggot) and Gey (Gay)
  • The Classless Penis
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I: Tables
  • Appendix II: Sampling Procedure
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author