Gender and Biopolitics

The Changing Patterns of Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-33739-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 194/09, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy

In Gender and Biopolitics: The Changing Patterns of Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey, Pinar Sarigöl sheds new light on the life spheres of the woman as a means of uncovering neoliberal Islamic thinking with regard to individuals and the population. Informed by Michel Foucault's critical perspective, the governmental rationality of post-2002 Turkey's Islamic neoliberalism is examined in this volume. The tenets and merits of Islamic neoliberalism bring moral and religious practices into the discussion regarding ‘how’ the social order should be in general, and ‘how’ the ideal woman should be in particular. Islam and neoliberalism are well matched here because Islam takes society as a social body in which hierarchies and roles are divinely normalised. This book uniquely brings this point to the fore and draws attention to the interplay between the rational and moral values constituting Islamic neoliberal female subjects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Sarigöl, Pinar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: the Conceptualisation of Ideal Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey

2. The Closed Circuits of the Woman’s Sexuality and Temperance Seductiveness

Islamic Virtues on Woman’s Sexuality

The Imagined Population in the New Gender Regime

Islamic Heteronormativity and Its Performance

Contouring Gender Justice

Intimacy in Public or the Intimacy of the Public?

To Veil or Not to Veil

On the Political Representations of Women

Policing Public Morality

Concluding Remarks

3. The Sacred Family Portrait: Balance, Uniformity, Patience and Piety

Understanding the Family in Its Cooperative Manner

True Womanhood and Unmanageable Fields of Government

The New Definition of Womanhood

Awakening the Sense of Motherhood

Some Facts: Adultery, Homosexuality, Prostitution, Brothels and the Like

The Last Sight on Family

Consulting Services for the Betterisation of Family

Divorce as an Impossible Practice

Concluding Remarks

4. Reconsidering Violence as a Disciplinary and Regulatory Apparatus

Statistical Facts and the Hard Truth

Rape as a Justified Reaction against Impropriety

From Crimes of Honour to Crimes of Passion

Political Reality and the Depolitisation of Violence

Protective Mechanisms and Legal Applications

Manhood and Violence

Gendered Mediation

Concluding Remarks

5. Islamic Neoliberal Female Subjectivity in Post-2002 Turkey

Reading (Political) Islamism in Its Own Governmental Nature in Turkey

Islamic Neoliberal Governmentality: Challenging the Unity of Sovereign Power, Disciplinary Power and Biopower

Rethinking Gender Justice in the Context of Islamism and Neoliberalism

The Exclusion and Inclusion of Women at the Intersection of Differences

Concluding Remarks

6. Conclusions: Resistance for the Better

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pinar Sarigöl, Ph.D. (2020), Bielefeld University, is a lecturer teaching politics. She has published monographs and articles on contemporary Turkish politics, and on theory of gender politics and new racism.