Description
Book SynopsisAn examination of Muslim men, focusing on the stereotypes and stigma these men face, the cultural roots of these prejudices, and the effect on assimilation and possible citizenship, through an ethnography of Turkish immigrants in Germany.
Trade Review"[This book] make[s] important points . . . Ewing exposes the obsessive preoccupation of Europeans with Muslim gender roles. A thinly concealed racism is indeed often behind feminist rhetoric adopted by individuals and groups who all too commonly ignore homegrown misogyny.
Stolen Honor is valuable because it gives an account of this phenomenon in a German context."—Deborah Gorham,
Men and Masculinities"Ewing brings a fresh perspective to the literature on Muslim immigrants in Europe by shifting her research focus from their cultural and religious characteristics to the national imagery of the majority population . . . This book should be required reading for graduate students to develop a critical eye for the literature on Muslim minorities in the West."—Ahmet Yukleyen,
Journal of Anthropological Research"Katherine Pratt Ewing's
Stolen Honor provides an interesting and original approach to analysis of discourses of Islam in Europe by focusing on construction of Muslim masculinity in Germany . . . [The] book is particularly valuable in its interdisciplinary perspective."—Beverly M. Weber,
H-Net Reviews."This is a highly original book that must be read by anyone interested in Muslims in Europe. Ewing flips the usual questions about discourses on honor and the 'oppression' of Muslim women to focus on their obverse: the stigmatization of Muslim men. Brilliantly linking media representations to the social worlds of Turkish origin men in Germany, she provides, ultimately, a devastating analysis of the fantasies that animate the German national imaginary."—Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University, author of
Writing Women's Worlds and
Dramas of Nationhood"Considering the case of Turkish Muslims in Germany, Ewing's inventive exploration of fear, stereotypes, assimilation, community, conflict, and cultural discourses should be mandatory reading. The processes she uncovers are of central relevance in the world today."—Aisha Khan, New York University
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Masculinity and Cultural Citizenship Part 1 Mythologizing the "Traditional" Man 2 Imagining Tradition: The Turkish Villager 3 Between Cinema and Social Work: Rescuing the Muslim Woman from the Muslim Man 4 Negotiating Stigmatization 5 Recovering Honor and Respect Part 2 Stigmatized Masculinity and the German National Imaginary 6 The Honor Killing 7 National Controversies and Social Fantasies 8 Germanness and the Leitkultur Controversy: Protecting the Constitution from the Muslim Man Epilogue References Notes Index
