Gender and Biopolitics

Pınar Sarıgöl, Ph.D. (2020), Bielefeld University, is a lecturer teaching politics. She has published monographs and articles on contemporary Turkish politics, and on theory of gender politics and new racism.

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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



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