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Gendered fortunes : divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey
- Title
- Gendered fortunes : divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey / Zeynep K. Korkman.
- Author
- Korkman, Zeynep K., 1978-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HQ1726.7 .K67 2023 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 276 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- 2000-2099
- Muslim women > Turkey > Social conditions > 21st century
- Sexual minorities > Turkey > Social conditions > 21st century
- Fortune-tellers > Social conditions > 21st century
- Fortune-telling > Economic aspects > Turkey
- Postsecularism > Turkey
- Islam and social problems > Turkey
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Islam and social problems
- Muslim women > Social conditions
- Postsecularism
- Turkey
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781478016908
- 9781478019541
- 1478019549
- 1478016906
- 9781478024163 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781478093558 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022040017
- OCLC
- on1330689366
- SCSB-14467058
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library