1st Edition
Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey Bodies of Exception
By Şima İmşir
Copyright 2023
212 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey offers readers fresh insight into Turkish modernity and its discourse on health, what it excludes and how these potentialities manifest themselves in women’s fiction to shape the imagination of the period. Starting from the nineteenth century, health gradually became a focal topic in relation to the future of the empire, and later... Read more
Introduction
Chapter One: Who is Inside? Who is Outside? Limits of the Healthy and Sturdy Nation
Chapter Two: The Making of the Healthy Woman: Halide Edib and the Politics of Medicine
Chapter Three: Almost a Man, But Not Quite: Medicine and Gender in Melodrama
Chapter Four: Adhered to the Flesh: Lived Bodies in Modernist Literature after 1960
Epilogue
Biography
Şima İmşir is an assistant professor in Comparative Literature at Koç University. Her teaching and research ranges from medical and health humanities, illness and literature to comparative modernisms, gender and postcolonial studies.
