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Violence and Gender in the “New” Europe

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137007094

ISBN: 978-1-349-43525-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 12, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Undoing the Connections between Muslim Violence, “Culture,” and Secularism

Weber, Beverly M.

Pages: 1 –38

[In 2007, a German judge denied a woman an expedited divorce with the words, “The exercise of the right to corporal punishment does not constitute an extreme hardship according to federal law” (Kirschstein; Oswald). The 26-year-old woman filing for divorce had been the victim of domestic violence...
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Chapter 2A Regime of Gender Violence: Honor Killings, Familial Violence, and Muslim Women’s Subjectivities

Weber, Beverly M.

Pages: 39 –76

[In 2005, 23-year-old Hatun Sürücü was standing at a bus stop in Berlin when her youngest brother, Ayhan, shot and killed her. This act not only tragically ended Hatun Sürücü’s life but also led to a new chapter in representations of Islam and violence in Germany and Europe. Her death sparked...
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Chapter 3Contentious Headscarves: Cleaning Woman, Forbidden Schoolteacher, Hijab Martyr

Weber, Beverly M.

Pages: 77 –112

[The immense and ongoing attention received by Sürücü’s murder stands in stark contrast to coverage of the xenophobically motivated murder of another Muslim woman, Marwa el-Sherbini, in a German courtroom in 2009. The incident began when el-Sherbini, wearing a hijab, asked Alex Wiens to make...
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Chapter 4Troubling Headscarves: Covering, Artistic Reconfigurations of Public Space, and the Muslim Woman’s Body

Weber, Beverly M.

Pages: 113 –135

[In the ten photographs that make up Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian’s 2006 series Ctrl+Alt+Del, a black-clad woman’s body disappears into the black background against which she is photographed, preventing any sense of depth or perspective within the image. Only her face, hands, and feet—those...
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Chapter 5Freedom to Imagine the World: Violence and the Writing of Self

Weber, Beverly M.

Pages: 137 –172

[In 2012, Necla Kelek, a German feminist of Turkish heritage, who has become notorious for her positions on Islam and Turkish integration into German society, gave a talk that elicited the following response on the satirical blog AggroMigrant. The blog entry laments the rudeness of somebody who...
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Chapter 6Violent Authenticities: The Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Feridun Zaimoglu

Weber, Beverly M.

Pages: 173 –198

[In 2002 I attended a play based on the life of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Die Deutschlandtür geht auf und gleich wiederzu [The Germany-Door Opens and Closes Immediately] at the Prater, a small experimental stage associated with the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. The Germany-Door...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Weber, Beverly M.

Pages: 199 –206

[In the early 2000s I presented work examining Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s various engagements with German literary tradition in her own literary texts, at several academic conferences. Inevitably, the conversation during the question-and-answer periods turned to the headscarf debates, despite the fact...

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