New Desires, New Selves: Sex, Love, and Piety Among Turkish Youth

by Gül Özyeğin

Book Overview

As Turkey pushes for its place in the global pecking order and embraces neoliberal capitalism, the nation has seen a period of unprecedented shifts in political, religious, and gender and sexual identities for its citizens. In New Desires, New Selves, Gul Ozyegin shows how this social transformation in Turkey is felt most strongly among its young people, eager to surrender to the seduction of sexual modernity, but also longing to remain attached...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147985381X
• ISBN13: 9781479853816
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"