In the Name of Women's Rights by Sara R Farris
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."[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 handSo we are left without certain answers, and that’s as it should be."
-- Joan W. Scott * The Nation *"The pertinence of Farris’s volume, especially in the development of immigration policies, is undeniable." -- Visnja Krstic * Cultural Sociology *
"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 *
"A brave monograph." -- Judith Whitehead * Monthly Review *
"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 *
"Welcome and invigorating." -- Peter Coviello * The Immanent Frame *
“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 *
"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 *
"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 *
"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 *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822369745 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822369745 |
| Title | In the Name of Women's Rights |
| Author | Sara R Farris |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2017-04-28 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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