The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
GSWS Core faculty Secil Yilmaz's article "Intimate Technologies of Family Making: Birth Control Politics in Cold War Turkey” has just come out in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine! Please read Dr. Yilmaz's article here, and below is her bio.
Seçil Yılmaz is an assistant professor of history and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current research concentrates on the social and political implications of venereal disease in the late Ottoman Empire by tracing the questions of colonialism, modern governance, biopolitics, and sexuality. Her other projects include research on the relationship between religion, history of emotions, and contagious diseases in the late Ottoman Empire as well as history of reproductive health technologies and humanitarianism in the modern Middle East. She is currently working on a book project tentatively titled Biopolitical Empire: Syphilis, Medicine, and Sex in the Late Ottoman World.
