LEADER 03936nam 22007695 450 001 9910369912803321 005 20251113173729.0 010 $a9783030320614 010 $a3030320618 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-32061-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000009845243 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5983469 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-32061-4 035 $a(PPN)259461725 035 $a(Perlego)3491224 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009845243 100 $a20191121d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Political Psychology of the Veil $eThe Impossible Body /$fby Sahar Ghumkhor 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (285 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Political Psychology,$x2946-2606 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9783030320607 311 08$a303032060X 327 $a1. Introduction: Bodies without Shadows -- 2 The Unveiling Body -- 3. The 'Pure Defense of the Innocent' and Innocence Lost: Imagining the Veiled Woman in Human Rights -- 4. The Woman Question -- 5. The Postcolonial Veil: Bodies in Contact -- 6. The Confessional Body -- 7. Conclusion. 330 $aVeiled women in the West appear menacing. Their visible invisibility is a cause of obsession. What is beneath the veil more than a woman? This book investigates the preoccupation with the veiled body through the imaging and imagining of Muslim women. It examines the relationship between the body and knowledge through the politics of freedom as grounded in a ?natural? body, in the index of flesh. The impulse to unveil is more than a desire to free the Muslim woman. What lies at the heart of the fantasy of saving the Muslim woman is the West?s desire to save itself. The preoccupation with the veiled woman is a defense that preserves neither the object of orientalism nor the difference embodied in women?s bodies, but inversely, insists on the corporeal boundaries of the West?s mode of knowing and truth-making. The book contends that the imagination of unveiling restores the West?s sense of its own power and enables it to intrude where it is ?other? ? thus making it the centre and the agent by promising universal freedom, all the while stifling the question of what freedom is. Sahar Ghumkhor teaches and researches in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Political Psychology,$x2946-2606 606 $aIdentity politics 606 $aPsychoanalysis 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aReligion and politics 606 $aLinguistics$xMethodology 606 $aPolitical sociology 606 $aPolitics and Gender 606 $aPsychoanalysis 606 $aPolitical Philosophy 606 $aPolitics and Religion 606 $aResearch Methods in Language and Linguistics 606 $aPolitical Sociology 615 0$aIdentity politics. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aReligion and politics. 615 0$aLinguistics$xMethodology. 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 615 14$aPolitics and Gender. 615 24$aPsychoanalysis. 615 24$aPolitical Philosophy. 615 24$aPolitics and Religion. 615 24$aResearch Methods in Language and Linguistics. 615 24$aPolitical Sociology. 676 $a391.430944 676 $a297.576 700 $aGhumkhor$b Sahar$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0860968 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910369912803321 996 $aThe Political Psychology of the Veil$91921353 997 $aUNINA