Veiled Threats Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses

• Tác giả: Naaz Rashid
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1447325184
• ISBN-10: 1447325192
• ISBN-10: 1447325206
• ISBN-13: 978-1447325185
• ISBN-13: 978-1447325192
• ISBN-13: 978-1447325208
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 305.4869709 Women
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bristol : Great Britain, 2008
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource xiii, 218 pages)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 198118
• Chủ đề: 1. Muslim women--Great Britain; 2. Muslim women; 3. Muslims--Great Britain; 4. Muslims; 5. Terrorism--Political aspects

Tóm tắt

The book looks at how 'the Muslim woman' is socially constructed through an analysis of contemporary racialized and gendered policy narratives in the UK. It is focused on Prevent, the UK's counter-terrorism agenda, established after the London bombings in 2005. It examines specific initiatives to 'empower Muslim women' to combat terrorism. It also considers how Muslim women are positioned within broader debates about multiculturalism, integration and Britishness. It argues that together such characterisations represent a form of gendered Orientalism which produces and legitimates anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia more generally in society. Moreover, there are particular negative effects on Muslim women which can be seen through increasing discrimination in employment and incidents of racial violence.