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The Political Psychology of the Veil = The Impossible Body /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Political Psychology of the Veil/ by Sahar Ghumkhor.
Reminder of title:	The Impossible Body /
Author:	Ghumkhor, Sahar.
Description:	XV, 274 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Identity politics. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32061-4
ISBN:	9783030320614

The Political Psychology of the Veil = The Impossible Body /
Ghumkhor, Sahar.

The Political Psychology of the VeilThe Impossible Body /[electronic resource] :by Sahar Ghumkhor. - 1st ed. 2020. - XV, 274 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology. - Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology.

1. Introduction: Bodies without Shadows -- 2 The Unveiling Body -- 3. The 'Pure Defense of the Innocent' and Innocence Lost: Imagining the Veiled Woman in Human Rights -- 4. The Woman Question -- 5. The Postcolonial Veil: Bodies in Contact -- 6. The Confessional Body -- 7. Conclusion.

Veiled women in the West appear menacing. Their visible invisibility is a cause of obsession. What is beneath the veil more than a woman? This book investigates the preoccupation with the veiled body through the imaging and imagining of Muslim women. It examines the relationship between the body and knowledge through the politics of freedom as grounded in a ‘natural’ body, in the index of flesh. The impulse to unveil is more than a desire to free the Muslim woman. What lies at the heart of the fantasy of saving the Muslim woman is the West’s desire to save itself. The preoccupation with the veiled woman is a defense that preserves neither the object of orientalism nor the difference embodied in women’s bodies, but inversely, insists on the corporeal boundaries of the West’s mode of knowing and truth-making. The book contends that the imagination of unveiling restores the West’s sense of its own power and enables it to intrude where it is ‘other’ – thus making it the centre and the agent by promising universal freedom, all the while stifling the question of what freedom is. Sahar Ghumkhor teaches and researches in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

ISBN: 9783030320614

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-32061-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

835847
Identity politics.

LC Class. No.: JA76

Dewey Class. No.: 320.562

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