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Author Korkman, Zeynep K., 1978- author.

Title Gendered fortunes : divination, precarity, and affect in postsecular Turkey / Zeynep K. Korkman
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject 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
LGBTQ+ people.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Islam and social problems
Muslim women -- Social conditions
Postsecularism
Turkey
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022040018
ISBN 9781478024163
147802416X
9781478093558
1478093552