Stolen Honor Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin by Katherine Pratt Ewing (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 282 pages.)

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With Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin, anthropologist
Katherine Ewing has made a timely and valuable contribution to the literature
on Muslims in Europe. Ewing explores the stigmatization of Muslims
of Turkish origin in light of multiple societal controversies ranging from
honor killings to citizenship tests meant to determine who can belong to the
German nation.While the focus in both the popularmedia and social science
literature has typically been on Muslim women in western societies, Stolen
Honor offers a novel perspective on men, who are usually overlooked by
social scientists and demonized by the media ...

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