“Hands off our women!” - ethnicizing sexual difference in recent representations of refugees and immigrants
At least since the 1990s a large body of research concerning the role of white women in the colonial enterprise testifi ed to the confl uence between upholding racist narratives and women’s rights discourses. Due to the extensive media coverage of multiple sexual harassment cases during the New Year...
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doaj-57adfc03565d4d498df143ebbb0e446a2021-10-02T12:41:36ZengWydawnictwa AGHStudia Humanistyczne AGH1732-21892084-33642019-03-01182019637810.7494/human.2019.18.1.63“Hands off our women!” - ethnicizing sexual difference in recent representations of refugees and immigrantsEwelina Pępiak0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0187-7931 Justus Liebig Universität GießenAt least since the 1990s a large body of research concerning the role of white women in the colonial enterprise testifi ed to the confl uence between upholding racist narratives and women’s rights discourses. Due to the extensive media coverage of multiple sexual harassment cases during the New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Germany, anti-racist and feminist discourses clashed in Poland and all over Europe, underpinning far-right rhetoric. The following intersectional and postcolonial analysis of contemporary narratives of the Muslim sexual deviancy maps discourses underlying recent representations of immigrants and refugees. From dwelling into Western European colonial iconographies, via liberal feminist discourse, to investigating links between publishing houses, press organs and political parties in Poland, this study puts forward an argument that contemporary islamophobia is complex and widespread far beyond being an age-old argument in far-right rhetoric.http://journals.bg.agh.edu.pl/STUDIA/2019.18.1/human.2019.18.1.63.pdfnew year’s eve in colognemedia representationsislam in popular literatureracism and islamophobiapolish far rightsexual violencecolonialism |
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“Hands off our women!” - ethnicizing sexual difference in recent representations of refugees and immigrants |
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At least since the 1990s a large body of research concerning the role of white women in the colonial enterprise testifi ed to the confl uence between upholding racist narratives and women’s rights discourses. Due to the extensive media coverage of multiple sexual harassment cases during the New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Germany, anti-racist and feminist discourses clashed in Poland and all over Europe, underpinning far-right rhetoric. The following intersectional and postcolonial analysis of contemporary narratives of the Muslim sexual deviancy maps discourses underlying recent representations of immigrants and refugees. From dwelling into Western European colonial iconographies, via liberal feminist discourse, to investigating links between publishing houses, press organs and political parties in Poland, this study puts forward an argument that contemporary islamophobia is complex and widespread far beyond being an age-old argument in far-right rhetoric. |
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new year’s eve in cologne media representations islam in popular literature racism and islamophobia polish far right sexual violence colonialism |
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