Artikel
Blut, Milch und Ehre : feministische Debatten zu Modernisierung und Multikulturalismus in der Türkei und in Europa
Verfasst von:
Strasser, Sabine
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Köln ; Wien [u.a.]:
2010
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81 - 100 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Strasser, Sabine info |
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| Jahr: | 2010 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| In this paper, I will first discuss feminist debates on body fluids, in particular blood, milk and sperm, and their meaning with regard to procreation, gender hierarchy and the concept of honour in rural eastern Turkey. These debates are enlightened by anthropological studies about symbolic interpretations of how ‘life comes into being’ and about concepts of purity, health and social order. Semen in this cosmology represents monogenetic male procreation whereas female blood and milk shape the appearance and health of the child, by nourishment in the womb and by breast-feeding after birth. Symbolic interpretations of blood and semen are related to sexual maturity, marriage, parenthood and kinship, yet may also be involved in practices of social control and violence. In this context, it is the body as a divine creation that is proposed in claims of control over women, men and sexuality. In this paper I will show how body fluids become a marker of im/purity, dis/order, dis/obedience and gender hierarchy in rural contexts in Turkey. At the same time I examine how these symbolic interpretations of the body in feminist discourses are translated into hegemonic discourses on ‘violence in the name of honour’ in both Turkey and Europe. I argue that in both contexts the focus on violence against women simultaneously aims at protecting women yet nonetheless victimises them. The dichotomy between ‘woman as victim’ and ‘man as perpetrator’ thus becomes the main pattern of ethnic and cultural discrimination in EU measures against so-called tradition-based violence. | |
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