New Desires, New Selves Akin Ogundiran and fortitude of Americans completing

and fortitude of Americans completing wartime tours of duty there

she would go to the city to buy a kitenge so elegant that everyone in the village would admire her

as “Irish” evolved between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries

Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics

it is also a story of family coexistence

New Desires, New Selves Akin Ogundiran and fortitude of Americans completingAs Turkey pushes for its place in the global pecking order and embraces neoliberal capitalism, the nation has seen a period of unprecedented shifts in political, religious, and gender and sexual identities for its citizens. In New Desires, New Selves, Gul Ozyegin shows how this social transformation in Turkey is felt most strongly among its young people, eager to surrender to the seduction of sexual modernity, but also longing to remain attached to