Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Editors' Note
Introduction: Reading the Fragments
PART I. NEW AXES OF SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION    
The New Middle Class and the Joys of Suburbia
The Doorkeeper, the Maid and the Tenant: Troubling Encounters in the Turkish Urban Landscape
Encounters at the Counter: Gender and the Shopping Experience
Discipline, Success and Stability: The Reproduction of Gender and Class in Turkish Secondary Education
PART II. CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE    
Playing Games with Names
`I Dance Folklore'
The Film Does not End with an Ecstatic Kiss
Global Consumerism, Sexuality as Public Spectacle, and the Cultural Remapping of Istanbul in the 1990s
The Islamist Paradox
PART III. SHIFTING IDENTITIES AT HOME AND ABROAD    
The Market for Identities: Secularism, Islamism, Commodities
`We Pray Like You Have Fun': New Islamic Youth in Turkey between Intellectualism and Popular Culture
Pink Card Blues: Trouble and Strife at the Crossroads of Gender
A Table in Two Hands
Negotiating Identities: Media Representations of Different Generations of Turkish Migrants in Germany
Afterword: Recognizing the Everyday

About the Author

MALA SEN is a writer and journalist based in London. Her first book, Indias Bandit Queen, about the outlaw Phoolan Devi, has been translated into ten languages and formed the basis of the controversial film of the same name.

Reviews

Sen tries to understand sati's place in Indian culture rather than simply condemn it and also writes in detail about Indian attitudes to women, their social standing and the practice of killing baby girls so that poverty-stricken parents do not have the financial worry of providing a dowry. A fascinating journey in the broadest sense through a particular landscape of modern India.
*Publishing News*

Death by Fire is dedicated to "all the women of India, who continue to struggle for social change and justice despite the odds ranged against them." It is a very fine tribute, and will be valued too in this country, where male violence against women is far from unknown.
*Dublin Sunday Tribune*

This litany of horror stories makes grim reading yet it is made bearable by Mala Sen's sympathetic presence in the text. . . . Her tenacity and exhaustion, combined with her frank admiration for the campaigners she meets, are as affecting as any amount of conventional political analysis. The result is that rare thing, a narrative that is at once horrifying and quietly inspirational.
*London Financial Times*

Sen's personal account takes us behind the familiar headlines. . . . this book should be read if only because it interrupts the usual traffic in tales of persecution by tradition.
*New Statesman*

Sen's grippingly honest book . . . takes a stark look at aspects of India that were until recently taboo. Engrossing, horrifying and beautifully written.
*Mail on Sunday*