Contesting Islam, constructing race and sexuality : the inordinate desire of the West

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Phobogenic object -- The intimacy of terror, the power of desire -- Chapter 1: The in/human subject -- Unlawful enemy combatant -- The death-dealing subject -- Oriental inscriptions, secular erasures -- Isla...

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1. Verfasser: Thobani, Sunera 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Suspensions: contemporary Middle Eastern and islamicate thought
Schlagworte:Civilization, Western East and West Electronic books Civilization, Western-Islamic influences Westliche Welt Rezeption Islam Sexualität
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 260 Seiten)
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Zusammenfassung:Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Phobogenic object -- The intimacy of terror, the power of desire -- Chapter 1: The in/human subject -- Unlawful enemy combatant -- The death-dealing subject -- Oriental inscriptions, secular erasures -- Islam/ic matters -- Judeo-Christian secularity: The highest stage of religion? -- The erotics of terror -- Chapter 2: Western constitutions: Religion, race and coloniality -- Western/izing onto-epistemologies -- The race of religion -- From Christian theology to Western philosophy -- Chapter 3: Sex/uality in the Islamic Orient -- Sexuality, terror, imperialism -- Primal scenes: Subjects of sex, objects of perversion -- The religion of sex -- The religion of gender -- Feminist desire in the Orient -- Chapter 4: Feminism at war -- Feminists fight the global terror -- Imperialism as precariousness -- Sexual terrorism and gender apartheid -- Secular critique: Feminist derailment of dissent -- Chapter 5: Remaking the West: Sovereignty, whiteness and the Judeo-Christian -- Europe's enmities, Europe's friends -- The Jew, the Muslim: The religio-racial politics of the camp -- The Judeo-Christian: Making friendship, remaking enmity -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 260 Seiten)
ISBN:9781350148116
1350148113
9781350148093
1350148091