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The Political Psychology of the Veil
- The Impossible Body
Engelsk Paperback
The Political Psychology of the Veil
- The Impossible Body
Engelsk Paperback

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Veiled 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.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
274
ISBN-13:
9783030320638
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3030320634
Udg. Dato:
2 jan 2021
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato:
2 jan 2021
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