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Intimacy surveilled : religion, sex, and secular cunning
Verfasst von:
Fernando, Mayanthi L.
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Chicago:
2014
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685 - 708 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Fernando, Mayanthi L. |
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| Jahr: | 2014 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article examines the nexus of sex, religion, and secularity in contemporary France. It analyzes the ways in which political, legal, and institutional practices aimed at securing secularity compel Muslim French women to reveal the innermost details of their sexual and religious lives. In legal forums and public debates, for example, Muslim French women have to disclose deeply personal information about their sexual and religious beliefs and practices in order to prove themselves sexually and religiously normal. Examining the construction and trespass of the public/private boundary foundational to secularism, I sketch secular power’s contradictory imperatives and its concomitant cunning. The interlinked regulation of sex and religion is underpinned, I argue, by the simultaneous imperatives to make private and to surveil. Thus, the discourses and practices that enact a distinction between public and private have as their effect the contravention of that public/private distinction, bringing the ostensibly private spiritual and sexual lives of Muslim women into the public sphere in order to regulate them. The dual incitement to exhibit and to hide, and the grim consequences of exhibiting that which must be hidden, constitute the cunning of secular power. | |
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