Introduction: masculinity and cultural citizenship -- Imagining tradition: the Turkish villager -- Between cinema and social work: rescuing the Muslim woman from the Muslim man -- Negotiating stigmatization -- Recovering honor and respect -- The honor killing -- National controv…
An examination of Muslim men, focusing on the stereotypes and stigma these men face, the cultural roots of these prejudices, and the effect on assimilation and possible citizenship, through an ethnography of Turkish immigrants in Germany.
The covered Muslim woman is a common spectacle in Western media{u2014}a victim of male brutality, the oppressed and suffering wife or daughter. And the resulting negative stereotypes of Muslim men, stereotypes reinforced by the post-9/11 climate in which he is seen as a potentia…
An examination of Muslim men, focusing on the stereotypes and stigma these men face, the cultural roots of these prejudices, and the effect on assimilation and possible citizenship, through an ethnography of Turkish immigrants in Germany.