{"id":1536,"date":"2018-06-12T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2019-06-27T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:27:10","slug":"pain-as-performance-re-virginisation-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2018\/06\/12\/pain-as-performance-re-virginisation-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain as Performance: Re-Virginisation in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1552\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2018\/06\/Medhum_44_2_Cover-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2018\/06\/Medhum_44_2_Cover-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2018\/06\/Medhum_44_2_Cover-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2018\/06\/Medhum_44_2_Cover-640x857.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an article for our June special issue &#8220;Pain and its Paradoxes&#8221;,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mh.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2018\/05\/03\/medhum-2017-011414\">\u201cPain as Performance: Re-Virginisation in Turkey,\u201d<\/a> Hande G\u00fczel turns to an analysis of acute pain related to re-virginisation, a surgical process of hymenoplasty that women in Turkey undertake to satisfy social expectations regarding virginity upon marriage. These expectations lead to the performance of what Gul Ozyegin terms the \u201cvirginal fa\u00e7ade,\u201d whereby women adopt two personas, one to their families as a virgin girl and one to their friends as a sexually-active woman. While acknowledging Elaine Scarry\u2019s argument about the difficulties of truly understanding another\u2019s pain in <em>The Body in Pain <\/em>(1985), G\u00fczel takes as central the notion that pain can nevertheless be communicated. Conducting in-depth interviews with fifty-three medical professionals and analyses of online support forums for women seeking hymenoplasty, G\u00fczel seeks to understand how the meaning-making process associated with re-virginisation is a collective endeavour that provides support to women who prefer to trust their own bodies rather than medical professionals who, as one interviewee explains, work in a field where fraud is a real concern or where practices that amount to the medical profession\u2019s claiming of ownership over womens\u2019 bodies occur. This collective meaning making process can risk eliding the subjectivity of acute pain while providing support for women who must shoulder the burden of the emotional labour and physical pain associated with re-virginisation.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip below\u00a0G\u00fczel describes the significance of pain and its performance for the process of re-virginisation.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1536-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2018\/06\/Soundbite-Guzel.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2018\/06\/Soundbite-Guzel.m4a\">https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2018\/06\/Soundbite-Guzel.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Read the full article on the <em>Medical Humanities<\/em> Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/mh.bmj.com\/content\/44\/2\/89\">website<\/a>.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article for our June special issue &#8220;Pain and its Paradoxes&#8221;,\u00a0\u201cPain as Performance: Re-Virginisation in Turkey,\u201d Hande G\u00fczel turns to an analysis of acute pain related to re-virginisation, a surgical process of hymenoplasty that women in Turkey undertake to satisfy social expectations regarding virginity upon marriage. 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