The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey

Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality

Hilal Alkan, Ayse Dayi, Sezin Topçu, Betül Yarar (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2022
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4274-8 (ISBN)

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In 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.

Hilal Alkan is a researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin, Germany. Ayse Dayi is the founder and director of Orca Dreams: Platform for Mindful Living. Sezin Topçu is a senior researcher at the French National Research Center (CNRS-CEMS-Ehess). Betül Yarar is a senior researcher at the Unit of Intercultural Education, University of Bremen, Germany.

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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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Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Gender and Islam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 232 mm
Gewicht	1520 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7556-4274-0 / 0755642740
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4274-8 / 9780755642748
Zustand	Neuware