The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey: Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9780755642748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str.

Hilal Alkan; Ayse Dayi; Sezin Topçu

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Illustrations Contributors and Editors Acknowledgements Introduction: Changing Regimes of Governing Women’s Bodies in Contemporary Turkey Hilal Alkan, Ayse Dayi, Sezin Topçu and Betül Yara Part 1: Governing the reproductive body: Emerging markets and contested moralities 1. Neoliberal Health Restructuring, Rising Conservatism and Reproductive Rights in Turkey: Continuities and Changes in Rights Violations Ayse Dayi and Eylem Karakaya 2. Crafting moral agency in transnational egg donation: The case of Turkish egg donors Burcu Mutlu 3. ‘Fantastic microscopic hair of uterus’: Navigating reproductive trajectories, biomedical bodies and renegotiation of heterosexual femininities and masculinities Nurhak Polat 4. Feeling like a ‘Misfit’: Kurdish women’s entangled reproductive experiences in Turkey Safak Kiliçtepe Part 2 Governing the maternal body: Between biomedical power and neoliberal healthcare 5. Banning caesareans or selling ‘Choice’?: The paradoxical regulation of caesarean section epidemics and the maternal body in Turkey Sezin Topçu 6. Monitoring pregnancies: The politics and ethics of reproductive health surveillance in Turkey Seda Saluk 7. Egg-freezing narratives of women: Between medicalization and marketization Azer Kiliç 8. Tactics of women up against obstetrical violence and the medicalization of childbirth in Turkey Selen Göbelez Part 3 Governing the sexualized body: Neoconservatism, authoritarianism and counter strategies 9. Misogynist Body Politics under the AKP Rule in Contemporary Turkey Esra Sarioglu 10. Disciplining pious female bodies/sexualities in the authoritarian times of Turkey: An analysis of public moral discourses on the ‘Süslümans’ Betül Yarar 11 Guiding the female body through the Alo Fetva hotline: The female preachers’ fatwas on religious marriage, religious divorce and sexual life Burcu Kalpaklioglu 12 Positioning the critical pious self vis-à-vis authoritarian populist body politics: Limits of feminist dissent in pious women columnists’ narratives in Turkey Didem Ünal Index