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... This chapter discusses the gendered nature of the public sphere that characterizes secular modernization projects in Muslim-majority countries, especially in Turkey. By means of a critical reading of two novels, written in two different historical moments of secularism and Islam, it analyzes...

... in photographs and interviews. The chapter draws on Judith Butler’s and Marilyn Strathern’s work on gendering and performativity to address the citational role of various practices of discourses of gender and race within colonial documents and their application in a newer context of colonization and sexual...

... Chapter 4 reads trans people’s practices of transgendering as resorting to the adoption of morphing technologies to appropriate the gender script of liberal citizenship. The idea of morphing differs from Judith Butler’s notion of queer performativity in that, while the latter ultimately...

... performances of many other minoritized workers, Asian superbloggers’ job performances have an added racial and gendered dimension of impression management to combat stereotypes. How fashion blogger poses both establish Asian superbloggers’ valuable role in the digital fashion media economy and they help them...

... This chapter analyzes food policing through the discourse of fūhyōhigai and its gendered mechanisms. Originally a concept to help food producers gain compensation for reduced sales due to the fear of contamination, the concept had a wider influence, often equating consumer worries...

...Conscripts of Democracy<subtitle>The Alliance for Progress, Development, and the (Re)Formation of a Gendered Middle Class, 1958–1965</subtitle> ...

...Contested Democracies<subtitle>Classed Subjectivities, Social Movements, and Gendered Petit Bourgeois Radicalization, 1960s–1970s</subtitle> ...