FEMEN and Muslima pride: Locating Muslim women in a German landscape
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[Thesis]
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Annalise Marie Stovall
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Weber, Beverly M.
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University of Colorado at Boulder
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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44
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Montoya, Celeste; Schmiesing, Ann
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-78541-8
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Discipline of degree
German and Slavic Languages and Literature
Body granting the degree
University of Colorado at Boulder
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2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Gender studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences;Femen;Germany;Muslim women;Muslima pride