Article:
Images of the Muslim Woman and the Construction of Muslim Identity: The Essentialist Paradigm

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dc.creatorManea, Elham
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-15T11:15:28Z
dc.date.available2023-05-15T11:15:28Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that much of the postmodern discourse on the Muslim woman and her veil is symptomatic of what I call the “essentialist paradigm”. The world is seen through the prism of a group’s religious/cultural identity and eventually constructs a Muslim identity – and with it an image of the Muslim Woman. The image of the op-pressed veiled Muslim Woman and the treatment of a piece of cloth as synonymous with her whole identity and being are products of this paradigm of thought. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines discourse analysis and a case study of the construction of the British Muslim community, this article argues that the essentialist paradigm ignores the context of its subject matter with all its accompanying power structures, political and social factors, and the roles played by both the state and fun-damentalist Islam in constructing a Muslim identity and with it the Muslim Woman and her dress code.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.2:2016.1.7
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19433
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/54
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20618
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectImagesen
dc.subjectMuslim Womanen
dc.subjectConstructionen
dc.subjectMuslimen
dc.subjectIdentityen
dc.subjectEssentialist Paradigmen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleImages of the Muslim Woman and the Construction of Muslim Identity: The Essentialist Paradigmen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-15T13:24:40
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/54
local.source.epage110
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitle"I Sing the body electric". Body, Voice, Technology and Religion
local.source.spage91
local.source.volume2

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