Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul Sehlikoglu Serta
Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul Sehlikoglu Serta Working Out Desire examines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women.…
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Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul Sehlikoglu Serta
Working Out Desire examines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. She traces Istanbulite women's ever-increasing interest in exercise not merely to an interest in sport, but also to an interest in establishing a new self--one that attempts to escape from conventional feminine duties--and an investment in forming a more agentive, desiring, self. Sehlikoglu follows the lat-est anthropological scholarship that defines desire beyond the moment it is felt, experienced, or even yearned for, and as something that is formed through a series of social and historical makings.
Working Out Desire develops a multilayered analysis of how women use spor meraki to take themselves out of the domestic zone physically, emotionally, and also imaginatively.Sehlikoglu pushes back against the conventional boundaries of scholarly