Gender and Biopolitics The Changing Patterns of Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey (Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy, 194/09)

In Gender and Biopolitics: The Changing Patterns of Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey, Pınar Sarıgöl takes a highly original approach to neoliberalism and Islamism, and develops new insights on the wider social and political repercussions of this shift on gender politics and the lives of women. "In Gender and Biopolitics: The Changing Patterns of Womanhood in Post-2002 Turkey, Pınar Sarıgöl sheds new light on the life spheres of the woman as a means of uncovering neoliberal Islamic thinking with regard to individuals and the population. Informed by Michel Foucault's critical perspective, the governmental rationality of post-2002 Turkey's Islamic neoliberalism is examined in this volume. The tenets and merits of Islamic neoliberalism bring moral and religious practices into the discussion regarding 'how' the social order should be in general, and 'how' the ideal woman should be in particular. Islam and neoliberalism are well matched here because Islam takes society as a social body in which hierarchies and roles are divinely normalised. This book uniquely brings this point to the fore and draws attention to the interplay between the rational and moral values constituting Islamic neoliberal female subjects"-- Provided by publisher The conceptualisation of ideal womanhood in post-2002 Turkey -- The closed circuits of the woman's sexuality and temperate seductivenes -- The sacred family portrait balance, uniformity, patience and piety -- Reconsidering violence as a disciplinary and regulatory apparatus -- Islamic neoliberal female subjectivity in post-2002 Turkey