Description: "In "Working Out Desire," Sehlikoglu presents the ways in which women's changing habits, leisure, and self-formation in the Muslim world and the Middle East are connected to their agentive capacities to shift and transform their conditions and socio-cultural capabilities"--
Brief description: Sertaç Sehlikoglu is a Senior Research Associate and Primary Investigator at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London.
Review Quotes: This ethnography of community-generated empowerment will challenge the persistent popular imaginary of ordinary Muslim women as caught in a frozen web of traditions and moral values.-- "Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University, Montreal"