EAN: 9781787079977

REPRESENTATIONS OF MUSLIM WOMEN IN GERMAN POPUL...

The figure of the «Muslim» woman or girl performs a crucial role in far-reaching
socio-political debates in Germany. Indeed  such figures challenge the boundaries of gender
equality and secularism and contest notions of tolerance and integration. The (in)visibility of
Muslim women's bodies and their apparent position in Islam function as ostensible indicators of
their oppression and of Islam's supposed incompatibility with western values.This book
investigates representations of «Muslim» women and girls in German popular culture from 1990 to
2015. The study analyses the discursive function of such figures in German popular culture via
three key research questions: what representational practices surround the figure of the Muslim
woman or girl in German life writing  young adult literature and film? How do such
representations function to produce «non-Muslim» subject positions? What is the function of
this figure within narratives of feminism and assertions of gender equality? This study
understands itself as an intervention into contemporary racist discourses in Germany and
operates within a transdisciplinary framework of intersectional feminism and cultural and
German studies. Ultimately  the book aims to make visible and interrogatethe underlying
hierarchies and agendas that drive representations of Muslim women and girls.This book was the
winner of the of the 2017 Early Career Researcher Prize in German Studies  a collaboration
between the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham and Peter Lang.

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