Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey: Bodies of Exception

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Notes
1 Who Is Inside? Who Is Outside?: Limits of the Healthy and Sturdy Nation
	Bodies That Make the Nation
	Eugenics: Limits of the Nation
	Disciplining Populations: Sports and Fitness
	Notes
2 The Making of the Healthy Woman: Halide Edib and the Politics of Medicine
	Regulatory Desire and Self as the Embodiment of Nation: What to Do With the Body?
	The Haunting of Handan and Ayesha: How to Master the Flesh
	Naturalism and the Question of Émile Zola’s Idealism
	From Degenerate Sara to the Fit Body of Lale: Saving the Soul
	Notes
3 Almost a Man, But Not Quite: Medicine and Gender in Melodrama
	Melodramatic Mode and Sickly Bodies of Women
	Melodramatic Mode and Melodrama in the Early Republican Fiction in Turkey
	Masculinity as a Crisis in the Moral Order: Almost a Man, But Not Quite
	Hiçkirik: The Recreation of the Moral Occult
	Posta Güvercini: Hypermasculinity and the Threat of Capitalism
	Notes
4 Adhered to the Flesh: Lived Bodies in Modernist Literature After 1960
	The Cultural Cold War and the Resisting Material Body
	The Hopeful Touch in Tezer Ozlu’s Çocuklugun Soguk Geceleri
	Doing a Juju Dance in the Face of X-Ray: Sevim Burak’s “Afrika Dansi” as a Text of Modernist Resistance
	‘I-am, I-Am, I-Am’ – In the Void of a Lost/Found I
	Notes
Epilogue
	Notes
Works Cited
Index