Health, Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey

Health, Literature and Gender 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 fiction to shape the imagination of the period.

-ima -m-ir 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.

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