Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab
Falguni A. Sheth, "Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab "
English | ISBN: 0197547141 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0197547141 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Despite 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
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