书目名称 | Stereotypes and Self-Representations of Women with a Muslim Background |
副标题 | The Stigma of Being |
编辑 | Margaretha A. van Es |
视频video | |
概述 | Makes a significant contribution to the debate surrounding Islam, patriarchy and the role of women.Demonstrates the impact of such controversies on women of Muslim origin.Resists narratives of victimi |
丛书名称 | Citizenship, Gender and Diversity |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | This book explores how stereotypes of “oppressed Muslim women” feed into the self-representations of women with a Muslim background. The focus is on women active in, and speaking on behalf of, a wide variety of minority self-organisations in the Netherlands and Norway between 1975 and 2010. The author reveals how these women have internalised and appropriated particular stereotypes, and also developed counter-stereotypes about majority Dutch or Norwegian women. She demonstrates, above all, how they have tried time and again to change popular perceptions by providing alternative images of themselves and of Islam, paying particular attention to their attempts to gain access to media debates. Her central argument is that their efforts to undermine stereotypes can be understood as an assertion of belonging in Dutch and Norwegian society and, in the case of women committed to Islam, as a demand for their religion to be accepted. This innovative work provides a “history from below” thatmakes a valuable contribution to scholarly debates about citizenship as a practice of inclusion and exclusion. Providing new insights into the dynamics between stereotyping and self-representation, it will |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Islamophobia; Asymmetrical power relations; Ethnic minorities; Contemporary women’s movements; Self-orga |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40676-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-82151-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-40676-3Series ISSN 2947-8081 Series E-ISSN 2947-809X |
issn_series | 2947-8081 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 |