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Author_Sertac Sehlikoglu
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Class subjectivities
Consumer culture
Culture
Desire
Ebru Salli
Emanet
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European Capital of Sports
Exercise
Female gaze
Fitness
Gender
Health
Homosociality
Intimacy
Istanbul
Leisure
Mahremiyet
Mediating figures
Middle East
Middle East studies
Modernity
Modernization
Municipal investments
Muslim world
Neoliberalism
Outdoor gyms
Pilates
Political ambitions
Politics
Postnatal exercise
Postpartum
Pregnancy
Prenatal exercise
Privacy
Public sexuality
Public spaces
Role models
Segregation
Self-care
Self-formation
Self-making
Spor AS
Sport
sports history
Tartan tracks
Temporalities
Trust
Turkish studies
TV personalities
Urban lifestyle
Urbanization
Women
women's and gender studies
women’s and gender studies
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- ISBN 9780815636953
- Weight: 435g
- Dimensions: 228 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jan 2021
- Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Working Out Desire 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. She traces Istanbulite women's ever-increasing interest in exercise not merely to an interest in sport, but also to an interest in establishing a new self - one that attempts to escape from conventional feminine duties - and an investment in forming a more agentive, desiring, self. Working Out Desire develops a multilayered analysis of how women use spor meraki to take themselves out of the domestic zone physically, emotionally, and also imaginatively.
Sehlikoglu pushes back against the conventional boundaries of scholarly interest in Muslim women as pious subjects. Instead, it places women's desiring subjectivity at its center and traces women's agentive aspirations in the way they bend the norms which are embedded in the multiple patriarchal ideologies (i.e. nationalism, religion, aesthetics) which operate on their selves.
Working out Desire 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.
Sehlikoglu pushes back against the conventional boundaries of scholarly interest in Muslim women as pious subjects. Instead, it places women's desiring subjectivity at its center and traces women's agentive aspirations in the way they bend the norms which are embedded in the multiple patriarchal ideologies (i.e. nationalism, religion, aesthetics) which operate on their selves.
Working out Desire 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.
Sertaç Sehlikoglu is an affiliated lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
