Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
The Conceptualisation of Ideal Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey
1 The Conceptualisation of Problematic Womanhood and Governmentality
2 Changing Patterns of Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey
3 Insights from Foucault’s Method
4 Selection of the Research Sources
5 Structure of the Book
6 Concluding Remarks
2 The Closed Circuits of the Woman’s Sexuality and Temperate Seductiveness
1 Islamic Virtues on Woman’s Sexuality
2 The Imagined Population in the New Gender Regime
2.1 Islamic Heteronormativity and Its Performances
2.2 Contouring Gender Justice
3 Intimacy in Public or the Intimacy of the Public?
3.1 To Veil or Not to Veil
3.2 On the Political Representations of Women
3.3 Policing Public Morality
4 Concluding Remarks
3The Sacred Family Portrait
Balance, Uniformity, Patience and Piety
1 Understanding the Family in Its Cooperative Manner
2 True Womanhood and Unmanageable Fields of Government
2.1 The New Definition of Womanhood
2.2 Awakening the Sense of Motherhood
2.3 Some Facts: Adultery, Homosexuality, Prostitution, Brothels and the Like
3 The Last Sight on Family
3.1 Consulting Services for the Betterisation of Family
3.2 Divorce as an Impossible Practice
4 Concluding Remarks
4 Reconsidering Violence as a Disciplinary and Regulatory Apparatus
1 Statistical Facts and the Hard Truth
2 Rape as a Justified Reaction against the Impropriety
3 From Crimes of Honour to Crimes of Passion
4 Political Reality and the Depoliticisation of Violence
4.1 Protective Mechanisms and Legal Applications
4.2 Manhood and Violence
4.3 Gendered Mediation
5 Concluding Remarks
5 Islamic Neoliberal Female Subjectivity in Post-2002 Turkey
1 Reading Political Islamism in Its Own Governmental Nature in Turkey
2 Islamic Neoliberal Governmentality: Challenging the Unity of Sovereign Power, Disciplinary Power and Biopower
3 Rethinking Gender Justice in the Context of Islamism and Neoliberalism
4 The Exclusion and Inclusion of Women at the Intersection of Differences
5 Concluding Remarks
6 Conclusions
Resistance for the Better
References
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