Beverly M Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverly M Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverly M |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kübra Gümüşay, Muslim digital feminism and the politics of visuality in Germany
Muslim women’s digital activism exists in complexly racialized visual contexts. This is exemplified in the journalism and activism of Kübra Gümüşay, who first gained public attention as the purportedly first “hijabi columnist” in Germany. This essay draws on her series “50 Thoughts” as an entry point into her digital activism. I suggest that Gümüşay uses this series to reveal the larger visual dilemmas with which she engages. Her digital activism…
Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space
Gender, race, religion, faith? Rethinking intersectionality in German feminisms
Despite the recent wave of scholarship on intersectionality, as well as a surge in feminist scholarship on Islam in German feminist studies, feminist research has yet to adequately engage with the role of religion in intersectionality. In this article the author draws on the work of the Aktionsbündnis muslimischer Frauen in Germany to explore the possibility for incorporating religion and faith into intersectional frameworks, which requires atten…
Troubling Headscarves: Covering, Artistic Reconfigurations of Public Space, and the Muslim Woman’s Body
In the ten photographs that make up Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian’s 2006 series Ctrl+Alt+Del , a black-clad woman’s body disappears into the black background against which she is photographed, preventing any sense of depth or perspective within the image. Only her face, hands, and feet—those parts of the body traditionally considered “naturally” visible and therefore not subject to laws of covering—are visible, as pale white contrasts to the bla…
Conclusion
In the early 2000s I presented work examining Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s various engagements with German literary tradition in her own literary texts, at several academic conferences. Inevitably, the conversation during the question-and-answer periods turned to the headscarf debates, despite the fact that this had nothing to do with the work at hand. As the decade continued, whenever presenting or teaching Turkish German literary texts, the “irrelevan…
A Regime of Gender Violence: Honor Killings, Familial Violence, and Muslim Women’s Subjectivities
In 2005, 23-year-old Hatun Sürücü was standing at a bus stop in Berlin when her youngest brother, Ayhan, shot and killed her. This act not only tragically ended Hatun Sürücü’s life but also led to a new chapter in representations of Islam and violence in Germany and Europe. Her death sparked massive national and international attention, accompanied by sensationalist headlines such as “Strangled, Stabbed, Drowned—the ‘Honor Killings’ in Berlin Pil…
Introduction: Undoing the Connections between Muslim Violence, “Culture,” and Secularism
In 2007, a German judge denied a woman an expedited divorce with the words, “The exercise of the right to corporal punishment does not constitute an extreme hardship according to federal law” (Kirschstein; Oswald). The 26-year-old woman filing for divorce had been the victim of domestic violence and death threats at the hand of her husband; under German domestic abuse laws, courts had already awarded her sole access to the apartment and a restrai…
Freedom to Imagine the World: Violence and the Writing of Self
In 2012, Necla Kelek, a German feminist of Turkish heritage, who has become notorious for her positions on Islam and Turkish integration into German society, gave a talk that elicited the following response on the satirical blog AggroMigrant. The blog entry laments the rudeness of somebody who arrives late but preaches German punctuality, and then asks: So are you Muslim, or not? What is really your take on Sarrazin’s statements about biological …
Contentious Headscarves: Cleaning Woman, Forbidden Schoolteacher, Hijab Martyr
The immense and ongoing attention received by Sürücü’s murder stands in stark contrast to coverage of the xenophobically motivated murder of another Muslim woman, Marwa el-Sherbini, in a German courtroom in 2009. The incident began when el-Sherbini, wearing a hijab, asked Alex Wiens to make space for her three-year-old son on a playground swing. He responded by accusing her of being an Islamist. She brought charges, and Wiens was subsequently fin…
Violent Authenticities: The Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Feridun Zaimoglu
In 2002 I attended a play based on the life of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Die Deutschlandtür geht auf und gleich wiederzu [The Germany-Door Opens and Closes Immediately] at the Prater, a small experimental stage associated with the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. The Germany-Door humorously highlights the paradoxical nature of the characters that Özdamar has conceived of and played. Promotional materials repeat a line from the play: “I al…
German Soccer, the 2010 World Cup, and Multicultural Belonging
The celebrations of the “multicultural” German national soccer team for the 2010 World Cup and the subsequent declaration of the failure of German multiculturalism reveal complex constructions of national belonging and of postnational identity constructions, and affective ties to the idea of Europe in twenty-first century Germany. Within what appears to be an enthusiastic celebration of a multicultural German team, we uncover a set of converging …
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such
From sex shacks to mega-brothels: The politics of anti-trafficking and the 2006 soccer World Cup
This article examines the discourses of forced prostitution that circulated in the US and European media and government publications in the context of the soccer World Cup in 2006. This analysis of the public discourse around prostitution reveals two themes: concerns about immigration and border security, and representations of gender binaries that serve to relegate migrant women to the status of victim. The fears of increased sex trafficking and…
Hijab Martyrdom, Headscarf Debates: Rethinking Violence, Secularism, and Islam in Germany
Fereshta Ludin’s struggle to be appointed as a public school teacher while wearing a hijab received massive media attention in Germany, while the xenophobically motivated murder of Marwa el-Sherbini, who was eventually dubbed the “hijab martyr” internationally, elicited muted response. Yet interpreting the reactions to these two cases together reveals much about the existence of racism and Islamophobia in contemporary Germany. In this article I j…
Work, Sex, and Socialism: Reading Beyond Cultural Hybridity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn
Emine Sevgi Özdamar's work reveals and challenges two dominant images of the immigrant woman in circulation in Germany. When she superimposes the images of the headscarf and the cleaning woman, she reveals the often hidden intersections of representations of the veiled immigrant woman and her role in the German service industry. As ‘the Other’ within Germany, the Muslim woman's veiled body constructs emancipated, democratic Germanness while effec…
A Literature of Theory: Christa Wolf's Kassandra Lectures as Feminist Anti-Poetics
Christa Wolf's Frankfurt lectures, delivered in May 1982, have enjoyed (or suffered) a critical reception that adequately addresses the narrative as literary discourse, while generally neglecting the theoretical import of the accompanying lectures.1 In the five lectures, Wolf deliberately avoids providing a unified poetics. However, she does present theories of literature that are key to understanding her more recent writing and illustrate affini…
Gender, race, religion, faith? Rethinking intersectionality in German feminisms
Despite the recent wave of scholarship on intersectionality, as well as a surge in feminist scholarship on Islam in German feminist studies, feminist research has yet to adequately engage with the role of religion in intersectionality. In this article the author draws on the work of the Aktionsbündnis muslimischer Frauen in Germany to explore the possibility for incorporating religion and faith into intersectional frameworks, which requires atten…
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such
German Soccer, the 2010 World Cup, and Multicultural Belonging
The celebrations of the “multicultural” German national soccer team for the 2010 World Cup and the subsequent declaration of the failure of German multiculturalism reveal complex constructions of national belonging and of postnational identity constructions, and affective ties to the idea of Europe in twenty-first century Germany. Within what appears to be an enthusiastic celebration of a multicultural German team, we uncover a set of converging …
Hijab Martyrdom, Headscarf Debates: Rethinking Violence, Secularism, and Islam in Germany
Fereshta Ludin’s struggle to be appointed as a public school teacher while wearing a hijab received massive media attention in Germany, while the xenophobically motivated murder of Marwa el-Sherbini, who was eventually dubbed the “hijab martyr” internationally, elicited muted response. Yet interpreting the reactions to these two cases together reveals much about the existence of racism and Islamophobia in contemporary Germany. In this article I j…
Kübra Gümüşay, Muslim digital feminism and the politics of visuality in Germany
Muslim women’s digital activism exists in complexly racialized visual contexts. This is exemplified in the journalism and activism of Kübra Gümüşay, who first gained public attention as the purportedly first “hijabi columnist” in Germany. This essay draws on her series “50 Thoughts” as an entry point into her digital activism. I suggest that Gümüşay uses this series to reveal the larger visual dilemmas with which she engages. Her digital activism…
From sex shacks to mega-brothels: The politics of anti-trafficking and the 2006 soccer World Cup
This article examines the discourses of forced prostitution that circulated in the US and European media and government publications in the context of the soccer World Cup in 2006. This analysis of the public discourse around prostitution reveals two themes: concerns about immigration and border security, and representations of gender binaries that serve to relegate migrant women to the status of victim. The fears of increased sex trafficking and…
A Literature of Theory: Christa Wolf's Kassandra Lectures as Feminist Anti-Poetics
Christa Wolf's Frankfurt lectures, delivered in May 1982, have enjoyed (or suffered) a critical reception that adequately addresses the narrative as literary discourse, while generally neglecting the theoretical import of the accompanying lectures.1 In the five lectures, Wolf deliberately avoids providing a unified poetics. However, she does present theories of literature that are key to understanding her more recent writing and illustrate affini…
Work, Sex, and Socialism: Reading Beyond Cultural Hybridity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn
Emine Sevgi Özdamar's work reveals and challenges two dominant images of the immigrant woman in circulation in Germany. When she superimposes the images of the headscarf and the cleaning woman, she reveals the often hidden intersections of representations of the veiled immigrant woman and her role in the German service industry. As ‘the Other’ within Germany, the Muslim woman's veiled body constructs emancipated, democratic Germanness while effec…
From sex shacks to mega-brothels: The politics of anti-trafficking and the 2006 soccer World Cup
This article examines the discourses of forced prostitution that circulated in the US and European media and government publications in the context of the soccer World Cup in 2006. This analysis of the public discourse around prostitution reveals two themes: concerns about immigration and border security, and representations of gender binaries that serve to relegate migrant women to the status of victim. The fears of increased sex trafficking and…
Hijab Martyrdom, Headscarf Debates: Rethinking Violence, Secularism, and Islam in Germany
Fereshta Ludin’s struggle to be appointed as a public school teacher while wearing a hijab received massive media attention in Germany, while the xenophobically motivated murder of Marwa el-Sherbini, who was eventually dubbed the “hijab martyr” internationally, elicited muted response. Yet interpreting the reactions to these two cases together reveals much about the existence of racism and Islamophobia in contemporary Germany. In this article I j…
Troubling Headscarves: Covering, Artistic Reconfigurations of Public Space, and the Muslim Woman’s Body
In the ten photographs that make up Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian’s 2006 series Ctrl+Alt+Del , a black-clad woman’s body disappears into the black background against which she is photographed, preventing any sense of depth or perspective within the image. Only her face, hands, and feet—those parts of the body traditionally considered “naturally” visible and therefore not subject to laws of covering—are visible, as pale white contrasts to the bla…
Conclusion
In the early 2000s I presented work examining Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s various engagements with German literary tradition in her own literary texts, at several academic conferences. Inevitably, the conversation during the question-and-answer periods turned to the headscarf debates, despite the fact that this had nothing to do with the work at hand. As the decade continued, whenever presenting or teaching Turkish German literary texts, the “irrelevan…
A Regime of Gender Violence: Honor Killings, Familial Violence, and Muslim Women’s Subjectivities
In 2005, 23-year-old Hatun Sürücü was standing at a bus stop in Berlin when her youngest brother, Ayhan, shot and killed her. This act not only tragically ended Hatun Sürücü’s life but also led to a new chapter in representations of Islam and violence in Germany and Europe. Her death sparked massive national and international attention, accompanied by sensationalist headlines such as “Strangled, Stabbed, Drowned—the ‘Honor Killings’ in Berlin Pil…
Introduction: Undoing the Connections between Muslim Violence, “Culture,” and Secularism
In 2007, a German judge denied a woman an expedited divorce with the words, “The exercise of the right to corporal punishment does not constitute an extreme hardship according to federal law” (Kirschstein; Oswald). The 26-year-old woman filing for divorce had been the victim of domestic violence and death threats at the hand of her husband; under German domestic abuse laws, courts had already awarded her sole access to the apartment and a restrai…
Freedom to Imagine the World: Violence and the Writing of Self
In 2012, Necla Kelek, a German feminist of Turkish heritage, who has become notorious for her positions on Islam and Turkish integration into German society, gave a talk that elicited the following response on the satirical blog AggroMigrant. The blog entry laments the rudeness of somebody who arrives late but preaches German punctuality, and then asks: So are you Muslim, or not? What is really your take on Sarrazin’s statements about biological …
Contentious Headscarves: Cleaning Woman, Forbidden Schoolteacher, Hijab Martyr
The immense and ongoing attention received by Sürücü’s murder stands in stark contrast to coverage of the xenophobically motivated murder of another Muslim woman, Marwa el-Sherbini, in a German courtroom in 2009. The incident began when el-Sherbini, wearing a hijab, asked Alex Wiens to make space for her three-year-old son on a playground swing. He responded by accusing her of being an Islamist. She brought charges, and Wiens was subsequently fin…
Violent Authenticities: The Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Feridun Zaimoglu
In 2002 I attended a play based on the life of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Die Deutschlandtür geht auf und gleich wiederzu [The Germany-Door Opens and Closes Immediately] at the Prater, a small experimental stage associated with the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. The Germany-Door humorously highlights the paradoxical nature of the characters that Özdamar has conceived of and played. Promotional materials repeat a line from the play: “I al…
German Soccer, the 2010 World Cup, and Multicultural Belonging
The celebrations of the “multicultural” German national soccer team for the 2010 World Cup and the subsequent declaration of the failure of German multiculturalism reveal complex constructions of national belonging and of postnational identity constructions, and affective ties to the idea of Europe in twenty-first century Germany. Within what appears to be an enthusiastic celebration of a multicultural German team, we uncover a set of converging …
Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture
Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such
Gender, race, religion, faith? Rethinking intersectionality in German feminisms
Despite the recent wave of scholarship on intersectionality, as well as a surge in feminist scholarship on Islam in German feminist studies, feminist research has yet to adequately engage with the role of religion in intersectionality. In this article the author draws on the work of the Aktionsbündnis muslimischer Frauen in Germany to explore the possibility for incorporating religion and faith into intersectional frameworks, which requires atten…
Kübra Gümüşay, Muslim digital feminism and the politics of visuality in Germany
Muslim women’s digital activism exists in complexly racialized visual contexts. This is exemplified in the journalism and activism of Kübra Gümüşay, who first gained public attention as the purportedly first “hijabi columnist” in Germany. This essay draws on her series “50 Thoughts” as an entry point into her digital activism. I suggest that Gümüşay uses this series to reveal the larger visual dilemmas with which she engages. Her digital activism…
Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · History (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Art (7 works) · German (7 works) · German legal, social, and political studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)