Stolen Honor Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin

Name: Stolen Honor Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
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ISBN: 9780804759007

ISBN-10: 0804759006

ISBN-13: 9780804759007

Edition: 2008

Authors: Katherine Pratt Ewing

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The covered Muslim woman is a common spectacle in Western media—a victim of male brutality, the oppressed and suffering wife or daughter. And the resulting negative stereotypes of Muslim men, stereotypes reinforced by the post-9/11 climate in which he is seen as a potential terrorist, have become so prominent that they influence and shape public policy, citizenship legislation, and the course of elections across Europe and throughout the Western world. In this book, Katherine Pratt Ewing asks why and how these stereotypes—what she terms "stigmatized masculinity"—largely go unrecognized, and examines how Muslim men manage their masculine identities in the face of such discrimination. The…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880

Katherine Pratt Ewing is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Religion at Duke University. She is the author ofArguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and Islam and the editor of Being and Belonging: Muslims in the US since 9/11(1997).



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Masculinity in a National Imaginary



Mythologizing the "Traditional" Man



Imagining Tradition: The Turkish Villager



Between Cinema and Social Work: Rescuing the Muslim Woman from the Muslim Man



Between Modernity and Tradition: Negotiating Stigmatization



Recovering Honor and Respect



Stigmatized Masculinity and the German National Imaginary



The Honor Killing



National Controversies and Social Fantasies of the Other



Germanness and the Leitkultur Controversy: Protecting the Constitution from the Muslim Man


Epilogue


Notes


References


Index