Muslim women as ‘ambassadors’ of Islam: breaking stereotypes in everyday life
Muslim women as ‘ambassadors’ of Islam: breaking stereotypes in everyday life
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穆斯林妇女作为伊斯兰教的“大使”：打破日常生活中的刻板印象
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2019
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Margaretha A. van Es
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作者：
Margaretha A. van Es
摘要本文探讨了荷兰穆斯林妇女的努力，她们试图通过监测自己在与非穆斯林少数民族成员的日常互动中的行为来打破“受压迫的穆斯林妇女”的刻板印象。她们把自己描绘成现代和解放的人，试图改变穆斯林妇女在荷兰社会中的主导形象，从而也改变伊斯兰教的主导形象。基于采访和档案材料，我证明，最初这种策略主要是通过荷兰皈依伊斯兰教，后来也由“出生”的穆斯林妇女。为什么越来越多的穆斯林妇女把自己变成伊斯兰教的“大使”？这种自我本质化的代价是什么？本文展示了有用的研究少数群体的自我代表在现有的陈规定型观念，认为穆斯林妇女的自我代表应被视为政治归属的一部分。
ABSTRACT This article explores the efforts of Dutch Muslim women who try to break the ‘oppressed Muslim woman’ stereotype by monitoring their own behaviour in everyday interactions with members of the non-Muslim ethnic majority. In representing themselves as modern and emancipated, they try to change the dominant image of Muslim women in Dutch society, and thus also that of Islam. Based on interviews and archival material, I demonstrate that initially this strategy was mostly adopted by Dutch converts to Islam, and later also by ‘born’ Muslim women. Why do more and more Muslim women turn themselves into ‘ambassadors’ of Islam? And what are the costs of this form of self-essentialization? This article demonstrates the usefulness of studying self-representations of minority groups in the light of existing stereotypes, arguing that Muslim women’s self-representations should be seen as part of a politics of belonging.