| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
Islam in German culture |
| Author: |
WeberBeverly M., |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2013 |
| Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Studies in European culture and history |
| Subject: |
Muslim women - Germany. - |
| Subject: |
Women - Violence against - Germany. - |
| Subject: |
Islam and civil society - Germany. - |
| Subject: |
Violence in mass media. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137007094An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
Images of covered women, together with stories of honor killings and forced marriages, continue to retain their currency in media representations of Islam. Moving beyond staid stereotypes, "Gender and Violence in the "New" Europe" draws new conclusions about the role of violence in determining Muslim women's participation in German public life. Combining cultural studies with theory, Beverly Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West in two key ways. First, she demonstrates how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against a range of forms of violence. Secondly, she analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and popular media. By examining how violence is imagined, portrayed, and challenged, this timely book provides new strategies for action. |
| ISBN: |
9781137007094electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137007095electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction: Undoing the connections between Muslim violence, culture and secularism A regime of gender violence: honor killings, familial violence, and muslim women's subjectivities Contentious headscarves: cleaning woman, forbidden schoolteacher, Hijab martyr Troubling headscarves: covering, artistic reconfigurations of public space, and the Muslim woman's body Freedom to imagine the world: violence and the writing of self Violent authenticities: the work of Emine Sevgi �Ozdamar and Feridun Zaimoglu. |