FEMEN and Muslima pride: Locating Muslim women in a German landscape

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" FEMEN and Muslima pride: Locating Muslim women in a German landscape "
Annalise Marie Stovall Weber, Beverly M.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	803467
Doc. No	:	TL48256
Call number	:	‭1692082692;‮ ‬1589998‬
Main Entry	:	Carpanzano, Michelle L.
Title & Author	:	FEMEN and Muslima pride: Locating Muslim women in a German landscape\ Annalise Marie StovallWeber, Beverly M.
College	:	University of Colorado at Boulder
Date	:	2015
Degree	:	M.A.
field of study	:	German and Slavic Languages and Literature
student score	:	2015
Page No	:	44
Note	:	Committee members: Montoya, Celeste; Schmiesing, Ann
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-78541-8
Abstract	:	Historically, Muslim women in Germany have been externalized from participating in European identity, despite possessing European citizenship. FEMEN's Topless Jihad Day protest places Muslim women inside of a German landscape, though through deeply problematic means. FEMEN demands the liberation of Muslim women from Islam through nudity. Previous research on Topless Jihad Day focuses on the Islamophobic and imperialist tactics of FEMEN, rather than their location of Muslim women within German society. My theoretical framework is based primarily in Judith Butler's theory of performativity, as well as Carrie Smith Prei and Maria Stehle's articulation of 'awkward feminism'. As a result, Topless Jihad Day distanced itself from other Islamophobic protests that represented Muslim women as outside of German society. The acknowledgment of Muslim women as German opens up the possibility for Muslim activist to gain access to more stable avenues of activism within European public discourses.
Subject	:	Gender studies
Descriptor	:	Social sciences;Femen;Germany;Muslim women;Muslima pride
Added Entry	:	Weber, Beverly M.
Added Entry	:	German and Slavic Languages and LiteratureUniversity of Colorado at Boulder