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To Veil or not to Veil: Europe's Shape-Shifting 'Other'
This study explores the issue of gender and immigration in the national contexts of Germany and France, where the largest minority populations are from Turkey and North Africa. Works by Özdamar, Şenocak and Mokeddem and interviews with young Muslim women are considered in response to the demonization of the Islamic 'other' within Europe.
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To Veil or not to Veil: Europe's Shape-Shifting 'Other'
This study explores the issue of gender and immigration in the national contexts of Germany and France, where the largest minority populations are from Turkey and North Africa. Works by Özdamar, Şenocak and Mokeddem and interviews with young Muslim women are considered in response to the demonization of the Islamic 'other' within Europe.
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To Veil or not to Veil: Europe's Shape-Shifting 'Other'

To Veil or not to Veil: Europe's Shape-Shifting 'Other'

by Kamakshi P. Murti
To Veil or not to Veil: Europe's Shape-Shifting 'Other'

To Veil or not to Veil: Europe's Shape-Shifting 'Other'

by Kamakshi P. Murti

Overview

This study explores the issue of gender and immigration in the national contexts of Germany and France, where the largest minority populations are from Turkey and North Africa. Works by Özdamar, Şenocak and Mokeddem and interviews with young Muslim women are considered in response to the demonization of the Islamic 'other' within Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783034308595
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 11/28/2012
Series: Cultural Identity Studies , #26
Pages: 237
Product dimensions: 5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Kamakshi P. Murti is Professor Emerita of German at Middlebury College. She has published extensively on German colonialism and imperialism, minorities discourse, and second- and foreign-language education. She is the author of India: The Seductive and Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism (2001).

Table of Contents

Contents: Borderlands and identities – France, Germany, and Islamophobia – ‘Tolerance’ and Germany’s ‘ignoble’ minorities? – The ungrievable writings of Özdamar and Şenocak – France and its banlieues défavorisées – The hijab as metaphor for linguistic terrorism – Deliberative dialogue and social justice.
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