Rethinking Patriarchy through Unpatriarchal Male Desires

Since scholars began interrogating the meaning of gender and sexuality in society, this field has become essential to the study of sociology. Gender Reckonings aims to map new directions for understanding gender and sexuality within a more pragmatic, dynamic, and socially relevant framework. It shows how gender relations must be understood on a large scale as well as in intimate detail. The contributors return to the basics, questioning how gender patterns change, how we can realize gender equality, and how the structures of gender impact daily life. Gender Reckoningscovers not only foundational concepts of gender relations and gender justice, but also explores postcolonial patterns of gender, intersectionality, gender fluidity, transgender practices, neoliberalism, and queer theory. Gender Reckonings combines the insights of gender and sexuality scholars from different generations, fields, and world regions. The editors and contributors are leading social scientists from six continents, and the book gives vivid accounts of the changing politics of gender in different communities. Rich in empirical detail and novel thinking, Gender Reckoningsis a lasting resource for students, researchers, activists, policymakers, and everyone concerned with gender justice.https://scholarworks.wm.edu/asbookchapters/1075/thumbnail.jp

The View from Downstairs

Excerpt from the book chapter: Early on a weekday morning in Ankara, people hurry to work as the usual urban scene repeats itself. A middle-class professional woman scurries about her fifth-floor apartment in one of Ankara’s elite neighborhoods. She is rushing to prepare her children for school and get herself and her husband ready for the workday ahead. She helps her husband find his blue-and-yellow striped tie while waiting for her crimson nail polish to dry so she can comb her daughter’s hair. At the same time, in the basement of the apartment building, another woman also prepares for the day ahead. With work-worn hands,...https://scholarworks.wm.edu/asbookchapters/1144/thumbnail.jp

Verwandtschaftsnetzwerke, Patronage und Klassenschuld Das Verhaltnis von Hausangestellten und ihren Arbeitgeberinnen in der Turkei.

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Virginal Facades Sexual Freedom and Guilt among Young Turkish Women

Charged with personal, societal and legal significance, the hymen, as a fold of flesh, has the power to rule the sexual identities of unmarried women in Turkey. This article examines the forms and associated meanings of contemporary challenges to virginity rules among educationally advantaged, upwardly mobile young women. The article demonstrates that in the process of negotiating often contradictory expectations of their sexual behavior, young women cultivate purposefully ambiguous identities related to their state of virginhood. The author calls these identities \u27virginal facades\u27 and explores their complex and contradictory implications. The author highlights an important normative shift from a focus on the physical reality of virginity to a focus on the moral expression of virginity, and emphasizes the intricate connection between social class and women\u27s sexuality experienced by some young women as sexual guilt

Calling the Tune: Impact of Domestic Worker’s Earnings on Intra-Household Gender Relations

Before the Servant Project began its activities, on the initiative of the editor of this book, the long term history of domestic service was still in its beginning stage. This volume is the first wide-ranging attempt to determine the role of domestic workers both in past and present times. Domestic service was of major importance in the multi-secular process of urbanization and socio-economic development of European societies. Today, domestic workers (mainly women) represent an important component of international labour migrations to Western countries. Instead of disappearing, as expected for a long time, paid domestic work is currently experiencing a kind of «resurgence».The contributions assembled in this volume analyze the situation of domestic workers, and contribute to improve knowledge concerning their individual characteristics (gender, ethnic group, religion), origin, motivation and cultural identity, relationship with their own families and those of the employers. Further topics are connections with the home country and place of destination, legal status, rights and duties, in order to understand the current globalization of domestic work.https://scholarworks.wm.edu/asbookchapters/1082/thumbnail.jp

The View From Downstairs: Place and Stigma in the Lives of Caretakers & Wives

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Arzunun Nesnesi Olmak: Romans, Kmlgan Erkeklik ve Neoliberal Ozne

Neoliberallesmeye bagli olarak Turkiye\u27de mahremiyetin donusumunu farkli ornekler uzerinden inceleyen makaleleri biraraya getiren seckide, saglik alanindaki metalasma, calisma kosullari ve saglik iliskileri, yeni ureme teknolojileri, yeni hastaliklar ve yeni hasta orgutlenmeleri, kanser ve hastalik anlatilari, menopozun sosyal algilanisi, neoliberalizm kosullarinda erkekligin donusumu, reklamlarda ve populer kulturde cinselligin ve escinselligin kurgulanisi, kadina yonelik siddet ve siginma evleri inceleniyor. Her biri ozgul bir durumdan hareket etmelerine ragmen bu makaleler sayesinde, hizla degisen maddi surecler karsisinda, bedenle, ozel alanla ilgili anlayis ve kavrayisimizda da koklu degisiklikler ortaya ciktigini saptayabiliyoruz.Goruluyor ki neoliberal mantik siklikla varsayildigi gibi bir ozgurlesmeye yol acmiyor: Daha ziyade herseyi metalasmaya dogru surukleyerek yeni tabiyet bicimleri yaratiyor. Kitapta bu yeni kosullar karsisinda insanlarin verdikleri tepkilerin, mucadelelerin ve gosterdikleri dayanismanin orneklerini de okuyoruz.Sayfa Sayisi: 288Baski Yili: 2011Dili: TurkceYayinevi: Metis Yayincilikhttps://scholarworks.wm.edu/asbookchapters/1083/thumbnail.jp