Unruly women : race, neocolonialism, and the hijab / Falguni A. Sheth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheth, Falguni A., 1968- author.

Series:

Philosophy of race

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women--United States--Ethnic identity.

Neoliberalism--United States.

Marginality, Social--United States.

Marginality, Social.

Neoliberalism.

Muslim women.

Ethnicity.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 257 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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 directed toward women of color and Black women. Even as neocolonialism incorporates without acknowledgment the anti-Blackness and settler-colonial roots of its past, along with an anti-immigrationist sentiment--it does not do so overtly. Rather it does so through a range of biopolitical, ontopolitical, and globalizing neoliberal economic norms. 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 excruciation undergone by the addressees of racial dismissal. Excruciation names the phenomena by which vulnerable populations are pressed into hopeless performances of cultural assimiliation. Racial dismissal is excavated through legal opinions, court transcripts, and other encounters between Muslim women and the state. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sheth, Falguni A. Unruly women

ISBN:

9780197547144

0197547141

9780197547137

0197547133

OCLC:

1263022442

Publisher Number:

99989936804