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Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)

New Books in LGBTQ+ Studies

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Divination and Gender in Turkey

This chapter explores the role of divination in Turkey and how it reinforces normative scenarios while allowing for non-heteronormative desires. It discusses examples such as tarot readings indicating same-sex romantic interests and the use of non-gendered personal pronouns in Turkish divination, highlighting the context of 2000s Turkey and the repression of feminist and queer movements in the 2010s.

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