عنوان

The Ethics of Representation: Muslim Women Reenacting and Resisting Whiteness

Number

TL49470

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

The Ethics of Representation: Muslim Women Reenacting and Resisting Whiteness

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Calafell, Bernadette M.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Denver

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

229

Text of Note

Committee members: Calafell, Bernadette; Foust, Christina; Hasian, Marouf; Thompson, Margaret; Towns, Armond

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-11009-8

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

International and Intercultural Communication

Body granting the degree

University of Denver

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This study examines Muslim women's performances and embodiment of White femininity. It addresses invisibility/visibility and problematic rhetorical constructs for re-securing and replicating White femininity, which in turn reasserts White masculinity as the dominant ideological structure in service of Whiteness. To be exact, the aim is to specifically focus on how Whiteness travels globally through Muslim bodies and subjects who speak the language of the imperialist and not the vernacular. This language of the imperialist is also the language of heteronormativity, class, and educational privilege. These intersections are not stand-alone categories but instead seep into one another in the service of Whiteness. The study performs an archetypal criticism, a method that examines controlling archetypes emerging from the Western Media. Three archetypes for Muslim women are identified in this study: The Oppressed, The Advocate, and the Humanitarian Leader. Through an intersectional feminist ethic the study concludes by offering further directions for understanding and naming moments when marginalized persons embody privileged identities.

Womens studies; Communication; Islamic Studies; Sociology

Subject Term

Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Arab;Intersectionality;Muslim;Postcolonial feminism;Whiteness;Women

Arafeh, Alia Kamal

Calafell, Bernadette M.

Subdivision

International and Intercultural Communication

University of Denver

Call Number

1929985743; 10269550

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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