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Book SynopsisDrawing on research that combines an ethnography of a new group of women from popular classes intoday''s Turkey and a study of vigilante violence against these women, including interviews and courtfiles, The Body Unburdened offers a compelling explanation for the surge of hostility against women inthe global era. It chronicles the journey of the New Woman from the neoliberal global era to thepopulist moment in the twenty-first century to show how the New Woman has gone from being adesirable employee in the global service economy to a precarious body that faces the risk of violence inthe right-wing populist moment. The book argues that those emotional and embodied capacities, whichhad made the New Woman attractive to service employers, catapulted her into the center of highlycontentious politics as both a feminist icon of resistance and the target of violent hostility during thereign of Turkey''s government.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The New Woman Feeling Her Way in Turkey 2. Origins of the New Woman: The Cultural Politics of Embarrassment and Its Changing Legal Status in Turkey 3. The New Woman at Work: Global Capitalism and the Gendered World of the Service Economy 4. Tables Turning Against the New Woman: The Rise of Moralist Politics 5. The New Woman in the Gezi Uprising: A New Political Actor or a Violable Subject? 6. The New Woman against the Vigilante Man: Violence, Orientations, and Disorientations Conclusion and Epilogue: The New Woman and Feminism in Uncertain Times Glossary of Turkish Terms References Index
