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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476777903321

Autore

Rashid Naaz

Titolo

Veiled Threats : Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses / / Naaz Rashid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK, 2008

Bristol, England ; ; Chicago, Illinois : , : Policy Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

9781447325192

1447325192

9781447325215

1447325214

9781447325185

1447325184

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Disciplina

305.48697041

Soggetti

Terrorism - Political aspects

Muslims

Muslim women

Muslims - Great Britain

Muslim women - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Veiled threats? -- 'Muslim women: your country needs you!' Gendering the UK's 'War on Terror' -- Gendered nationalisms: the 'true' clash of civilisations? -- Tales of the city: diversity in diversity, working between and within local differences -- Giving the silent majority a stronger voice? -- As a mother and a Muslim: maternalism and neoliberal empowerment -- A community of communities: privileging religion -- The Muslim woman: victims of oppression or agents of change? -- Some reflections on Prevent -- Bibliography -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

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.