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Unruly women : race, neocolonialism, and the hijab /

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"Drawing upon Michel Foucault's accounts of governmentality and neoliberalism, liberal feminist and colonial "civilizing" narratives, and tacit juridical racial dismissal toward visibly Muslim women, this book explores the neocolonial and racial-cultural aesthetics of power as di...

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Main Author: Sheth, Falguni A., 1968- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Philosophy of race series
Subjects:
Muslim women > United States > Ethnic identity.
Neoliberalism > United States.
Marginality, Social > United States.
Musulmanes > Identité ethnique > États-Unis.
Néo-libéralisme > États-Unis.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY.
Political.
Movements.
Marginality, Social
Neoliberalism
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ontopolitics: Unruliness, Excruciation, and Dismissal
  • 2. Anxieties of Liberalism: Secularism, Feminism, and Suitable Muslim Women
  • 3. A Genealogy of Neocolonial Social Comportment
  • 4. The Hijab and the Sari: The Strange and the Sexy Between Colonialism and Global Capitalism
  • 5. Reversing the Gaze: The Racial-​Cultural Aesthetics of Power
  • 6. Transparency and the Deceptive Conceit of Liberalism
  • 7. Discrimination, Neoliberalism, and Suitable Women
  • 8. Dismissal: Neocolonialism, Race, and Anti-​Blackness
  • Conclusion: Listening to the Silences.