Gendered Fortunes

Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey

Zeynep K. Korkman

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Duke University Press
21 April 2023

Gender studies, gender groups; Islamic studies; Social & cultural anthropology

"In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafes where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life. Criminalized by long-standing secularist laws and disdained by contemporary Islamist government, fortunetelling cafes proliferate in part because they offer shelter from the conservative secularist, Islamist, neoliberal, and gender pressures of the public sphere. Korkman shows how fortunetelling is a form of affective labor through which its participants build intimate feminized publics in which they share and address their hopes and fears. Korkman uses feeling-which is how her interlocutors describe the divination process-as an analytic to view the shifting landscape of gendered vulnerability in Turkey. In so doing, Korkman foregrounds ""feeling"" as a feminist lens to explore how those who are pushed to the margins feel their way through oppressive landscapes to create new futures."

By: Zeynep K. Korkman
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781478019541
ISBN 10: 1478019549
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 21 April 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Gendered Fortunes 1 Part I. The Religious, the Superstitious, and the Postsecular 1. Crimes of Divination 37 2. The Gendered Politics of Secularism 59 3. Feeling Postsecular 87 Part II. Femininity, Intimacy, and Publics 4. Feeling Publics of Femininity 111 5. The Joys and Perils of Intimacy 139 Part III. Feeling Labor, Precarity, and Entrepreneurialism 6. Feeling Labors of Divination 161 7. Entrepreneurial Fortunes 193 Coda. Feminist Divinations 221 Notes 225 References 241 Index 263

Zeynep K. Korkman is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Reviews for Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey

"""This book is innovative, thought-provoking, and well-written. It offers novel insights for scholars interested in feminist scholarship on gendered labour and its affective modalities in the age of neoliberalism. Moreover, it is a necessary read for those who aim to grasp the shifting terms of the affective atmosphere in the political sphere and public culture of millennial Turkey and how divination publics constitute novel public arrangements at the intersection of gender precarities, emotions, affect, neoliberalism and postsecularism.""--Didem Unal ""Feminist Encounters"" (12/1/2023 12:00:00 AM) ""Gendered Fortunes contributes to multiple disciplines like gender studies, Middle Eastern studies, critical theory, and social sciences. Beyond all the theoretical novelty, conceptual clarity, and historical complexity, anthropologists and ethnographers will particularly enjoy meeting the many eccentric but familiar characters coming alive through Korkman's masterfully crafted ethnography. Gendered Fortunes is poised to become the go-to fun and interesting text in undergraduate anthropology syllabi to teach gender, religion, and secularism in postsecular Turkey."" --Deniz Duruiz ""American Anthropologist"" (8/6/2023 12:00:00 AM)"