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<P>New book on Turks in Germany</P>
<P>Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin. by Katherine Pratt
Ewing.</P>
<P>Stanford University Press, 2008.</P>
<P>The covered Muslim woman is a common spectacle in Western media—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 potential terrorist, have become so prominent
that they influence and shape public policy, citizenship legislation, and the
course of elections across Europe and throughout the Western world. In this
book, Katherine Pratt Ewing asks why and how these stereotypes—what she terms
"stigmatized masculinity"—largely go unrecognized, and examines how Muslim men
manage their masculine identities in the face of such discrimination.</P>
<P>The author focuses her analysis and develops an ethnographic portrait of the
Turkish Muslim immigrant community in Germany, a population increasingly framed
in the media and public discourse as in crisis because of a perceived refusal of
Muslim men to assimilate. Interrogating this sense of crisis, Ewing examines a
series of controversies—including honor killings, headscarf debates, and Muslim
stereotypes in cinema and the media—to reveal how the Muslim man is ultimately
depicted as the "abjected other" in German society.</P>
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<P>Katherine Pratt Ewing</P>
<P>Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Religion</P>
<P>Duke University</P>
<P>katherine.ewing@duke.edu</P></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>