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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey

Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey

Korkman, Zeynep K.

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AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1478019549
ISBN13: 9781478019541
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 21 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life. Criminalized by long-standing secularist laws and disdained by contemporary Islamist government, fortunetelling cafés proliferate in part because they offer shelter from the conservative secularist, Islamist, neoliberal, and gender pressures of the public sphere. Korkman shows how fortunetelling is a form of affective labor through which its participants build intimate feminized publics in which they share and address their hopes and fears. Korkman uses feeling--which is how her interlocutors describe the divination process--as an analytic to view the shifting landscape of gendered vulnerability in Turkey. In so doing, Korkman foregrounds feeling as a feminist lens to explore how those who are pushed to the margins feel their way through oppressive landscapes to create new futures.

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