RELIGION, GENDER AND RACE IN WESTERN EUROPEAN ARTS AND CULTURE;: THINKING THROUGH RELIGIOUS TRANSFORMATION
In: Routledge critical studies in religion, gender and sexuality
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In: Routledge critical studies in religion, gender and sexuality
In: Journal of Muslims in Europe, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 286-312
ISSN: 2211-7954
Abstract
In this article, I draw on critical investigations of gendered, racialised and sexualised discourses on Islam and Muslim minorities in Western Europe to explore two recent instances of Muslim female intellectuals and artists responding to what has been dubbed "the Muslim question". I shall show that Muslim women's counter-voices are multilayered, conveyed through various means, and context-dependent, as well as dependent on intersectional marginalised positionalities. My goal is to theoretically rethink the feminist methodology of 'talking back' on the basis of the complex ways in which Muslim women establish modes of critique.
In: Tijdschrift voor genderstudies, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 191-207
ISSN: 2352-2437
In: Social movement studies: journal of social, cultural and political protest, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 493-508
ISSN: 1474-2837
In: Women's studies international forum, Band 44, S. 35-45
In: Tijdschrift voor genderstudies, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 1-5
ISSN: 2352-2437
In: Tijdschrift voor genderstudies, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 65-80
ISSN: 2352-2437
In: Tijdschrift voor genderstudies, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 197-216
ISSN: 2352-2437
In: Tijdschrift voor genderstudies, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 81-104
ISSN: 2352-2437
Abstract
This written version of various conversations came into being as a response to Dutch entertainer Claudia de Breij's 2016 New Year's Eve cabaret performance. We were enticed to write something about this performance because of the numerous ambiguities that were present in it. What was striking was the fact that we, a group of Dutch and Belgian academics and activists, working in different disciplines but united by our mutual interests in and passion for the themes of (super-)diversity, gender and sexuality, and religion and societal matters, each interpreted this performance differently. From a conciliatory, interconnecting cabaret performance in which alterity and difference were (re)presented as something positive, to a performance that confirmed already-existing stereotypes rather than subverting them: all these different interpretations and impressions are explained in detail in the following diffractive dialogue that was engendered by and through various conversations that took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands in January, May, August, and September 2017.