A Madonna in Laleli and Secret
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12796643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hande Güzel (0000-0002-2186-5308, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 416-422 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Middle East Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1552-5864 • E-ISSN: 1558-9579 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/15525864-7720977 |
| OpenAlex | W2982102650 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Other| November 01 2019 A Madonna in Laleli and Secret: Marginalizing Revirginization and Revirginizers in Turkish Cinema Hande Güzel Hande Güzel HANDE GÜZEL is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests cut across the sociology of the body, gender, sexuality, and health and illness, with an emphasis on the Middle East. Her most recent work, “Pain as Performance: Re-virginisation in Turkey,” appeared in the journal Medical Humanities. Contact: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 416–422. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720977 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Hande Güzel; A Madonna in Laleli and Secret: Marginalizing Revirginization and Revirginizers in Turkish Cinema. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 November 2019; 15 (3): 416–422. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720977 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Middle East Women's Studies Search Advanced Search Sexuality is a taboo topic in Turkish movies as (auto)censorship has become standard following heightened state control of the film industry, especially since the early 2000s (Kuyas 2017),1 which includes restrictions on discussions around virginity. The movies A Madonna in Laleli (Azize: Bir Laleli Hikayesi, 1999) and Secret (Saklı, 2015) have a special place in the Turkish film archive because of their focus on revirginization practices. Revirginization is the set of methods women use to reclaim their “technical virginity” (Özyeğin 2015). The primary method used is hymenoplasty, or the restoration of the hymen to allow for the possibility of bleeding, sometimes coupled with vaginoplasty, an additional surgery that provides a feeling of vaginal tightness during penile-vaginal intercourse. In Turkey increasing numbers of women are revirginizing before marriage or, to a lesser... Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies2019 You do not currently have access to this content
Art · Art history · Censorship · Icon · Political science · Sociology · Turkish · Virginity test · Computer Science · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |