Essays about: "Muslim women."

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  1. 41. Women and the Media : The Representation of Muslim Women in Liberal-nonpartisan Italian Newspapers

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Nabila Nuraddin; [2017]
    Keywords : Muslim; Women; Representation; Framing; Stereotype; Critical discourse analysis; Italian newspapers;

    Abstract : Muslim women are misrepresented through frames and stereotypes that the media uses to further an established narrative. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis, the study analyzes three liberal-nonpartisan Italian newspapers and their approach towards two themes, which are the burkini debate that occurred in late August 2016 and the analysis of three different Muslim women within the Italian society. READ MORE

  3. 42. Suicide – Dying for a higher purpose? A study of the motives of the Islamic female suicide bombers through Emile Durkheim’s structural view on suicide

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Michelle Nilsson; [2017]
    Keywords : Suicide; Suicide Terrorism; Islam; Gender; Martyrdom; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : There have been several accounts of suicide attacks in the last few years; and although male attackers outnumber female attackers, the number of female suicide bombers has been on the rise. This thesis analyzes the motivation of Muslim female suicide bombers using Durkheim’s theory on suicide and society. READ MORE

  4. 43. The Discrimination in Workplaces : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the European Court of Justice Judgment about the Islamic Veil Prohibition

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Umeå universitet/Juridiskt forum

    Author : Zahran Dabbagh; [2017]
    Keywords : Socio-legal; Intersectionality; Gender; Multiple Discrimination; Intersectional Discrimination; Neutrality; Objectivity; Justification;

    Abstract : The issue of the Islamic headscarf has been in the centre of the political debate whether it fits into the Western culture or not. Several member-states in the European Union have issued laws and regulations that impose restrictions on wearing the Islamic headscarf in the public sphere. READ MORE

  5. 44. Nobody asks us! Muslim women's experiences and perspectives of multiculturalism, the legal system and the debate on veil in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Syarta Bonnevier; [2016]
    Keywords : Discrimination; Distorted communication; Habermas: Theory of Communicative Action; Veil-ban; Multiculturalism; Legal system; Recognition; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Within the first decade of this millennium several Western European countries have prohibited Muslim veils in public spaces. Excluding the culture of Muslims or more specifically Islamic beliefs in a multicultural society, in which the hardest hit are Muslim veiled women, has resulted in the discourse of the ‘rise and fall of multiculturalism’. READ MORE

  6. 45. From avengers to heroines: muslim*women dismantling hegemonic discourses

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Gina Waibel; [2016]
    Keywords : Queer theory; postcolonial theory; Muslim; women; racism; nationalism; gender; Europe; discourse analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Hegemonic European discourses about muslim*women reduce the complex living realities of muslim*women to the singular of the gendered and racialized other. This thesis investigates the hegemonic functioning of these discourses and explores postcolonial and queer theoretical approaches for dismantling it. READ MORE