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020 _a9780197547144
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245 0 _aUnruly women
260 _a
_bOxford University Press,
_c2022
300 _a272 pages ; 24 cm
505 _aIntroduction
_r1. Ontopolitics: Unruliness, Excruciation, and Dismissal--
_r2. Anxieties of Liberalism: Secularism, Feminism, and Suitable Muslim Women--
_r3. A Genealogy of Neocolonial Social Comportment--
_r4. The Hijab and the Sari: The Strange and the Sexy Between Colonialism and Global Capitalism--
_r5. Reversing the Gaze: The Racial-Cultural Aesthetics of Power--
_r6. Transparency and the Deceptive Conceit of Liberalism--
_r7. EEOC v. Abercrombie and Fitch: Discrimination, Neoliberalism, and Suitable Women--
_r8. Dismissal: Neocolonialism, Race and Anti-Blackness--
_rConclusion Listening to the Silences--
520 _aDespite the disapproval that 'visibly' Muslim women face in the West, the U.S. does not ban the hijab or niqab. Nevertheless, it does find a way to manage assertive Muslim women. How so? Subtly and without outright confrontation: through the courts, bureaucratic processes and liberal discourses. From a range of juridical decisions connected not only by a distinctly neocolonial gaze, but also through the tacit dimension of race, Muslim women-among other women of color-are reconceived as neonates who must be taught to behave: as Americans, as professional women, and as autonomous, mildly independent subjects. ; ; Focusing on the discrimination claims of Muslim women, this study examines juridical and political approaches that dismiss Muslim women and other populations of color as culturally backward, misguided in their thinking, and gratuitously nonconformist. Likewise, it analyses the experience of racial dismissal through excruciation: the phenomenon by which vulnerable populations are pressed into hopeless performances of cultural assimilation. Racial dismissal is excavated through legal opinions, court transcripts, and other encounters between Muslim women and the state. Ultimately, this work finds that the racial address of dismissal and the phenomena of excruciation have been pivotal to a liberal juridical order that otherwise claims neutrality. By concentrating on the treatment of Muslim women, this book uncovers dynamics of social and racial division which have inhabited and bolstered liberal legal neutrality from its inception. This book's framework, while focusing on Muslim women in the U.S., is a template for understanding how exclusion is juridically implemented for other racialized and marginalized populations.
630 _aHQ THE FAMILY. MARRIAGE. WOMEN
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650 _aMuslim women
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650 _aEthnic identity
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650 _aNeoliberalism
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650 _aUnited States
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650 _aMarginality
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700 _aSheth, Falguni A
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