Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey
Author: Petek Onur
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 3031508750
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Women, Religion, and the State in Contemporary Turkey
Author: Chiara Maritato
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1108873693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the centrality of women in the definition of Turkish secularism, this study investigates the 2003 decision to increase the number of women officers employed by the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). It explores how, as professional religious officers, the female Diyanet preachers epitomize a pious, modern and highly educated woman whose role in society has been raised to prominence. Based on extensive fieldwork in Turkey, and drawing on a rich ethnography of the activities conducted by Diyanet women preachers in Istanbul, Chiara Maritato disentangles the state's attempt to standardize a multifaceted female religious participation. In using the feminization of the Diyanet as a prism through which to understand the significance of a renewed presence of Islam in the Turkish public realm, she casts light on a broader reformulation of religious services for women and families in Turkey, and pinpoints how this pervasive moral support has been able to penetrate and reshape even secular spaces.
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin
Author: Synnøve Bendixsen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9004251316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their everyday life engagement with Islam. It deals with the reconstruction of selfhood and the collective content of identity formation in an urban and transnational setting.
Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey
Author: Jeremy F. Walton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0190658975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn contemporary Turkey, a plethora of Muslim NGOs, spanning the sectarian divide between Sunni and Alevi Muslims, has called into question statist sovereignty over Islam. Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey is an ethnographic study of these institutions and their distinctive, nongovernmental politics of religious freedom.
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Sherine Hafez
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013-06-05
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0253007615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth and quality of their ethnographic writing and for their interventions in current theory.
Ethnographies of Islam
Author: Dupret Baudouin Dupret
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013-09-23
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0748654798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comparative approach to the various uses of the ethnographic method in research about Islam in anthropology and other social sciences is particularly relevant in the current climate. Political discourses and stereotypical media portrayals of Islam as a monolithic civilisation have prevented the emergence of cultural pluralism and individual freedom. Such discourses are countered by the contributors who show the diversity and plurality of Muslim societies and promote a reflection on how the ethnographic method allows the description, representation and analysis of the social and cultural complexity of Muslim societies in the discourse of anthropology.
We Have No Microbes Here
Author: Sylvia Wing Önder
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining traditional metaphors used to describe the body and its suffering, this study situates a Turkish Black Sea village community in expanding networks of labor migration and medical technologies as well as within international discourses on science and religion."--BOOK JACKET.
Ethnographic Feminisms
Author: Sally Cole
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1995-05-15
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0773581324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is written by anthropologists who are currently engaged in research on gender. The editors argue for the development of an ethnography-based feminism that both pays heed to what women in specific circumstances identify as their concerns and recognizes the contradictions inherent in the goals of feminist anthropology. The essays consider a range of "awkward" issues, including feminism in international contexts, the invisibility of women's working lives, and the problems of voice and ethnographic representation. Referring to a variety of ethnographic contexts, and working from diverse perspectives, the contributors examine the multiple dilemmas and conflicts of gender and power.
Ethnographic Feminisms
Author: Sally Cooper Cole
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0886292484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis significant new study contains the work of anthropologists engaged in doing research on gender. The editors argue for the creation of an ethnography-based feminism that, at the same time, pays heed to what women in specific circumstances identify as their concerns and also recognizes contradictions inherent in the goals of a feminist anthropology. These essays grapple with a range of awkward issues, including feminism in international contexts, the invisibility of women's working lives, and the problems of voice and ethnographic representation. Referring to a variety of ethnographic contexts, and working from diverse perspectives, the contributors examine the multiple dilemmas and conflicts of gender and power.A volume which will not only constitute a significant contribution to the social sciences literature both theoretically and substantively, but will also place Canadian feminist anthropology on the cutting edge of global feminist anthropology. I strongly recommend it. Valda Blundell Carleton University
The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey
Author: Hilal Alkan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 075561741X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has introduced new regulations about reproductive rights, and shifted family and gender policies. Women's central role in reproductive and domestic work was swiftly reaffirmed, and abortion and IVF were newly debated. Taking Turkey as the case study, this is the first book to examine the various ways neoliberal modes of governing women's bodies interact with conservative and authoritarian measures. The contributions focus on reproduction, maternity and sexuality, to explore the three main areas of governmental interventions into the female body. Topics for discussion include: the expansion of IVF and egg markets, the privatization of gynaecological and obstetrical care, differential treatment of poor and ethnic minority women's fertility/sexuality, and women's multiple responses to these shifts. While focusing on Turkey, the book presents analytical tools applicable under rising authoritarianisms and conservatisms worldwide.
