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
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