Description
Sehlikoglu pushes back against the conventional boundaries of scholarly interest in Muslim women as pious subjects. Instead, it places women's desiring subjectivity at its center and traces women's agentive aspirations in the way they bend the norms which are embedded in the multiple patriarchal ideologies (i.e. nationalism, religion, aesthetics) which operate on their selves.
Working out Desire presents the ways in which women's changing habits, leisure, and self-formation in the Muslim world and the Middle East are connected to their agentive capacities to shift and transform their conditions and socio-cultural capabilities.
About the Author
Sertac Sehlikoglu is an affiliated lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Book Information
ISBN 9780815636953
Author Sertac Sehlikoglu
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Syracuse University Press
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Weight(grams) 435g