Working Out Desire - Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul

Informationen zum Autor Sertaç Sehlikoglu is a Senior Research Associate and Primary Investigator at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. Klappentext "In "Working Out Desire," Sehlikoglu presents the ways in which women's changing habits, leisure, and self-formation in the Muslim world and the Middle East are connected to their agentive capacities to shift and transform their conditions and socio-cultural capabilities"-- Zusammenfassung Examines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu follows the latest anthropological scholarship that defines desire beyond the moment it is felt! experienced! or even yearned for! and as something that is formed through a series of social and historical makings.

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• Authors: Sertaa Sehlikoglu, Sertac Sehlikoglu, Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Sertat Sehlikoglu
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780815636953
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3695-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics; Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Türkei, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, History - General History, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire