Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media.
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Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media.
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Violence and Gender in the

Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture

by B. Weber
Violence and Gender in the

Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture

by B. Weber

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Overview

Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349435258
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 01/30/2013
Series: Studies in European Culture and History
Edition description: 1st ed. 2013
Pages: 241
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Beverly M. Weber is an assistant professor of German in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Table of Contents

Introduction: De-forming the Connections between Muslim Violence, 'Culture' and Secularism 1. A Regime of Gender Violence: Honor Killings, Familial Violence, and Muslim Women's Subjectivities 2. Contentious Headscarves: Cleaning Woman, Forbidden Schoolteacher, Hijab Martyr 3. Troubling Headscarves: Covering, Artistic Reconfigurations of Public Space, and the Muslim Woman's Body 4. Freedom to Imagine the World: Violence and the Writing of Self 5. Violent Authenticities: The Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Feridun Zaimoglu Conclusion
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