Narkowicz, Kasia and Pedziwiatr, Konrad (2017) Saving and fearing Muslim women in ‘post-communist’ Poland:troubling Catholic and secular Islamophobia. Gender, Place and Culture. ISSN 0966-369X
Abstract
Sexual politics play a key role in anti-Muslim narratives. This has been observed by scholarship problematising liberal feminist approaches towards ‘non-Western’ subjects focusing on countries such as France, the USA and the Netherlands. Yet interrogations into how these debates play out in European national contexts that are located outside of the European ‘West’ have attracted significantly less scholarly attention. Drawing on qualitative data collected in Poland this article aims to begin to fill this gap by analysing the centrality of feminist discourses within Islamophobic agendas in Poland. The article asks how discourses around women’s rights are mobilised simultaneously, and paradoxically, by both secular and Catholic groups in ‘post-communist’ Poland. By showcasing how feminist sentiments are employed by ideologically opposing groups, we sketch out some of the complexities in the ways Islamophobia operates in a Central and Eastern European context.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK limited, trading as taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2017 16:00 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jan 2025 00:10 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1298574 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1298574 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:114055 |
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