Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey - Bodies of Exception

Health, Literature and Gender in Twentieth Century Turkey offers readers fresh insight into Turkish modernity and its discourse on health, what it excludes, and how these potentialities manifest themselves in fiction to shape the imagination of the period.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Who is Inside? Who is Outside? Limits of the Healthy and Sturdy Nation
Chapter Two: The Making of the Healthy Woman: Halide Edib and the Politics of Medicine
Chapter Three: Almost a Man, But Not Quite: Medicine and Gender in Melodrama
Chapter Four: Adhered to the Flesh: Lived Bodies in Modernist Literature after 1960
Epilogue

About the author

Şima İmşir is an assistant professor in Comparative Literature at Koç University. Her teaching and research ranges from medical and health humanities, illness and literature to comparative modernisms, gender and postcolonial studies.

Summary

Health, Literature and Gender in Twentieth Century Turkey offers readers fresh insight into Turkish modernity and its discourse on health, what it excludes, and how these potentialities manifest themselves in fiction to shape the imagination of the period.

Product details

• Authors: Şima İmşir
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032009469
• ISBN: 978-1-032-00946-9
• No. of pages: 202
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Cultural Studies, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Middle East, Personal & public health, Humanities, Regional Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Personal and public health / health education