Gender, Race and Religion: Intersections and Challenges

by Bulmer; Martin

• ISBN13: 9780415686327
• ISBN10: 0415686326
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Gender, Race and Religionbrings together a selection of original papers published in Ethnic and Racial Studiesthat address the intersections between gender relations, race and religion in our contemporary environment. Chapters address both theoretical and empirical aspects of this phenomenon, and although written from the perspective of quite different national, social and political situations, they are linked by a common concern to analyse the interface between gender and other situated social relationships, from both a conceptual and a policy angle. These are issues that have been the subject of intense scholarly research and analysis in recent years, as well as forming part of public debates about the significance of gender, race and religion as sites of identity formation and mobilisation in our changing global environment. The substantive chapters bring together insights from both theoretical reflection and empirical research in order to investigate particular facets of these questions. Gender, Race and Religionaddresses issues that are at the heart of contemporary scholarly debates in the field of race and ethnic studies, and engages with important questions in policy and public debates. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Gender, race and religion: intersections and challenges	p. 1
Islam, gender, and immigrant integration: boundary drawing in discourses on honour killing in the Netherlands and Germany	p. 5
You're Brazilian, right? What kind of Brazilian are you? The racialization of Brazilian immigrant women	p. 26
Cigar production: how race, gender and political ideology were inscribed onto tobacco	p. 44
Religiosity and gender equality: comparing natives and Muslim migrants in Germany	p. 65
Suicidal behaviour of young immigrant women in the Netherlands. Can we use Durkheim's concept of 'fatalistic suicide' to explain their high incidence of attempted suicide?	p. 89
Marriage in colour: race, religion and spouse selection in four American mosques	p. 109
Why do bilingual boys get better grades in English-only America? The impacts of gender, language and family interaction on academic achievement of Latino/a children of immigrants	p. 132
What is the meaning of 'black'? Researching 'black' respondents	p. 155
Index	p. 174
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