Working Out Desire examines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu follows the lat\u00adest 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. She traces Istanbulite women\u2019s ever-increasing interest in exercise not merely to an interest in sport, but also to an interest in establishing a new self\u2014one that attempts to escape from conventional feminine duties\u2014and an investment in forming a more agentive, desiring, self. 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 interest in Muslim women as pious subjects. Instead, it places women\u2019s desiring subjectivity at its center and traces women\u2019s agentive aspirations in the way they bend the norms which are embedded in the multiple patriarchal ideologies (i.e. nationalism, religion, aesthetics) which operate on their selves. Working out Desire presents the ways in which women\u2019s changing habits, leisure, and self-formation in the Muslim world and the Middle East are connected to their agentive capacities to shift and transform their conditions and socio-cultural capabilities.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Working Out Desire examines spor meraki as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu follows the lat\u00adest 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….<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":5548,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[48,47],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5547","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-akademik-yayinlar","product_cat-kitaplar","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n