Asli Zengin
Biography
Asli Zengin is a fifth year PhD student in both the Anthropology Department and the collaborative program in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral work focuses on the relationship between intimacy and state power in Turkey. She investigates the intimate relations between representatives of the State (police, doctors, lawyers, etc) and trans people who work in the sex trade and/or seek sex change operations. Paying close attention to the legal codes and regulations surrounding sex change operations and sex work in Turkey, Asli Zengin investigates the ways in which the Turkish State seeks to regulate sexuality and intimacy, and describes the ways in which trans women respond to these processes in their everyday lives. She is the author ofIktidar谋n Mahremiyeti: 陌stanbul鈥檇a Hayat Kad谋nlar谋, Seks 陌艧莽ili臒i ve 艦iddet [Intimacy of Power: Women Prostitutes, Sex Work and Violence in 陌stanbul] (Metis Yay谋nevi: 陌stanbul, 2011).