Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe

Islam in German Culture

B. Weber

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781349435258, 9781137007087
• eBook ISBN: 9781137007094
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: Literature

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.

INDEX

Action Alliance of Muslim Women, see Aktionsbündnis muslimischer Frauen

activism

and Afro-German women, 13–14

alliances, 10, 20, 36, 38, 47–48, 68, 74, 142, 183

and gender violence, 50–52, 144, 201

against headscarf ban, 133

queer, 205

against racism, 3, 13–16, 48–49, 104, 108, 120, 139, 189–190, 200, 204–205

against rape, 50–51

against violence, 23, 36–37, 42–43, 47–49, 50–52, 68, 138–139, 199–206

Adelson, Leslie, 15–16, 177–178, 182–183, 188

Afro-Germans, 144, 199

agency, 10, 14, 17–23, 48–49, 57, 74, 84, 127–128, 130, 134, 142, 166, 188, 204, 205

Ahmed, Leila, 19, 47, 85

Akgün, Lale, 70–71

Akkent, Meral, 86, 89–90

Aktionsbündnis muslimischer Frauen (AMF), 201–202, 204

Akyün, Hatice, 103, 140, 143, 152–155, 165–166

Alanyali, Iris, 140, 155–162, 166, 176, 193

An Order of Hans with Hot Sauce, see Einmal Hans ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Undoing the Connections between Muslim Violence, “Culture,” and Secularism
• One   A Regime of Gender Violence: Honor Killings, Familial Violence, and Muslim Women’s Subjectivities
• Two   Contentious Headscarves: Cleaning Woman, Forbidden Schoolteacher, Hijab Martyr
• Three   Troubling Headscarves: Covering, Artistic Reconfigurations of Public Space, and the Muslim Woman’s Body
• Four   Freedom to Imagine the World: Violence and the Writing of Self
• Five   Violent Authenticities: The Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Feridun Zaimoglu
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index