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In the Name of Women´s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism
Sara R. Farris
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Paperback. Sara R. Farris examines the calls for gender equality from an unlikely collection of European right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policymakers, showing how their exploitation of feminist ideals justifies anti-Islam and anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of feminist themes by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns as femonationalism. She shows that by characterizing Muslim males as dangerous to western societies and as oppressors of women, and by emphasizing the need to rescue Muslim and migrant women, these groups use gender equality to justify their racist rhetoric and policies. This practice also serves an economic function. Farris analyzes how neoliberal civic integration policies and feminist groups funnel Muslim and non-western migrant women into the segregating domestic and caregiving industries, all the while claiming to promote their emancipation. In the Name of Women's Rights documents the links between racism, feminism, and the ways in which non-western women are instrumentalized for a variety of political and economic purposes.
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822369745
SKU
V9780822369745
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About Sara R. Farris
Sara R. Farris is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the author of Max Weber's Theory of Personality: Individuation, Politics, and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion.
Reviews for In the Name of Women´s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism
Farris's book is comprehensive, thorough, and masterly in accomplishing her key objective, which is, to draw feminist attention toward a new political economic configuration in which neoliberal conditions, feminist politics of gender equality, and right-wing nationalism coalesce to sustain exploitative ideological and material relations between western and nonwestern women. It is indeed a timely and needed study of the political and ethical costs to feminism of the concurrence of civilizational politics and neoliberal economics and thus has applications beyond the European context.
Amina Jamal
American Journal of Sociology
A highly readable, insightful and alarming account of the deployment of a discourse of women's rights by racist and nationalist movements in Europe. . . . This is a work that deserves to be widely read.
Gargi Bhattacharyya
Ethnic and Racial Studies
An incisive intervention in how we understand rescue narratives of Muslim and non-Western migrant men as perpetrators of violence against Muslim and non-Western migrant women. . . . An important contribution to a range of fields including but not limited to critical race theory, transnational studies, gender and sexuality studies, political science, and sociology.
Sasha A. Khan
Feminist Formations
In the Name of Women's Rights is an important and timely contribution to the fields of sociology, gender and women studies, and migration studies. Highly recommended.
Maya El Helou
Refuge
Welcome and invigorating.
Peter Coviello
The Immanent Frame
In the Name of Women's Rights is a timely book with an impressive scope and rich theoretical diversity. . . . A must-read for anyone concerned with the appropriation of feminism or the operation of Islamophobia in contemporary Europe.
Julie E. Dowsett
International Feminist Journal of Politics
A brave monograph.
Judith Whitehead
Monthly Review
Brilliant. . . . Through [Farris's] careful analysis of the political economic dimensions of femonationalism, certain elements of our contemporary landscape are illuminated with startling and disturbing clarity.
Catherine Rottenberg
Jadaliyya
The pertinence of Farris's volume, especially in the development of immigration policies, is undeniable.
Visnja Krstic
Cultural Sociology
[Farris's] reading of 'femonationalism' as a symptom of neoliberal capitalism gives little hope that a quick or effective solution is possible for the crises at hand. So we are left without certain answers, and that's as it should be.
Joan W. Scott
The Nation
Amina Jamal
American Journal of Sociology
A highly readable, insightful and alarming account of the deployment of a discourse of women's rights by racist and nationalist movements in Europe. . . . This is a work that deserves to be widely read.
Gargi Bhattacharyya
Ethnic and Racial Studies
An incisive intervention in how we understand rescue narratives of Muslim and non-Western migrant men as perpetrators of violence against Muslim and non-Western migrant women. . . . An important contribution to a range of fields including but not limited to critical race theory, transnational studies, gender and sexuality studies, political science, and sociology.
Sasha A. Khan
Feminist Formations
In the Name of Women's Rights is an important and timely contribution to the fields of sociology, gender and women studies, and migration studies. Highly recommended.
Maya El Helou
Refuge
Welcome and invigorating.
Peter Coviello
The Immanent Frame
In the Name of Women's Rights is a timely book with an impressive scope and rich theoretical diversity. . . . A must-read for anyone concerned with the appropriation of feminism or the operation of Islamophobia in contemporary Europe.
Julie E. Dowsett
International Feminist Journal of Politics
A brave monograph.
Judith Whitehead
Monthly Review
Brilliant. . . . Through [Farris's] careful analysis of the political economic dimensions of femonationalism, certain elements of our contemporary landscape are illuminated with startling and disturbing clarity.
Catherine Rottenberg
Jadaliyya
The pertinence of Farris's volume, especially in the development of immigration policies, is undeniable.
Visnja Krstic
Cultural Sociology
[Farris's] reading of 'femonationalism' as a symptom of neoliberal capitalism gives little hope that a quick or effective solution is possible for the crises at hand. So we are left without certain answers, and that's as it should be.
Joan W. Scott
The Nation