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Taming Muslim Masculinity: Patriarchy and Christianity in German Immigrant Integration

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Ozyurek Baer, Esra 
Lypp, Jacob 

Abstract

Abstract This article analyzes a growing sector of state-funded pedagogies designed to reform Muslim masculinity in Germany. These programs present Muslim men as suffering from a psychopathology rooted in an alleged Islamic “honor culture”. They rely on a mix of Christian and non-religious welfare providers to supply Muslim youth with alternative masculine role models. We trace three implications of this arrangement: First, these programs’ culturalist approach perpetuates Orientalist hierarchizations of masculinity. Second, the de-Islamized masculinity these programs construct as normatively binding revolves around a heteronormative patriarchy imagined as benevolent, thereby reinforcing the subjection of women. Third, these educational initiatives yoke the reform of Muslim masculinity to male participants’ dramatic conversion to a Christian-German culture that blurs the line between the religious and the nonreligious. We suggest that studies of (hegemonic) masculinity in Europe ought to attend to the salience of the nation-state and to the public relevance of Christianity—two dimensions given short shrift in recent theorizing.

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Keywords

4405 Gender Studies, 44 Human Society

Journal Title

Men and Masculinities

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1097-184X
1552-6828

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Publisher

SAGE Publications

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