Gendered fortunes : divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey / / Zeynep K. Korkman

• Autore: Korkman Zeynep K. <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations
• Soggetto topico: Muslim women - Turkey - Social conditions - 21st century; Sexual minorities - Turkey - Social conditions - 21st century; Fortune-tellers - Social conditions - 21st century; Fortune-telling - Economic aspects - Turkey; Postsecularism - Turkey; Islam and social problems - Turkey
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Gendered fortunes -- Crimes of divination -- The gendered politics of secularism -- Feeling postsecular -- Feeling publics of femininity -- The joys and perils of intimacy -- Feeling labors of divination -- Entrepreneurial fortunes -- Feminist divinations.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Gendered Fortunes approaches the proliferating fortunetelling economy of millennial Turkey as an affective window on the gendered contradictions of (post)secularism, Islamist authoritarianism, and neoliberalism. The book ethnographically details how secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate their secular anxieties, gendered vulnerabilities, and economic precarities through divination."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Gendered fortunes
• ISBN: 1-4780-2416-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910705082503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II