Violence of Everyday Struggles

Çiçek Tanlı Autschbach is a sociologist in Germany, who works on the topics of gender, everyday violence, divorced/single motherhood, and migration.

“Tanlı Autschbach explores how immigrant divorced mothers from Turkey forge new understandings of their place in the world, their collective action and resistance, and their labor as lone mothers. Tanlı Autschbach’s book is at once a much-needed rethinking of women’s relationship to violence, and a hopeful story of how women survive and thrive—even as they protest against increasing precarity in their lives.” —Beverly Weber, Chair, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures (GSLL), Professor of German Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. “A compelling and original study, this work offers a sharp feminist and intersectional analysis of immigrant divorced mothers’ everyday struggles and agency. Its rigorous scholarship, reflexive methodology and nuanced critique of how violence is defined position it as an important and timely contribution to debates on gender, migration and structural harm.” —Katucha Bento, Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies, The University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science, UK.

• Acknowledgments; Glossary For The Interview Translations; Introduction; Everyday Violence And (In)Visibilities; Migrantized Divorced Motherhood: The Fields Of Daily Struggles; Discourses And Resources: Relational Self Of The Migrantized ‘Lone’ Mother; Everyday Protests: Labor, Analyses And Refusals; Conclusion: The Work Of Tackling Everyday Violence And Culturalization; References; Index