Sara Farris - Islamophobia in the Name of Women's Rights | SOAS University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2018-02-09

This seminar titled "Islamophobia in the Name of Women's Rights" was given by Sara Farris as part of the Development Studies Seminar Series on 14 November 2017 at SOAS University of London. 
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In her presentation Sara Farris discussed some of the themes laid out in her new book, In the Name of Women's Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke, 2017). Farris' book explores the ways in which feminist ideas are often exploited by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns. She coins the term ‘femonationalism’ to describe the practices and claims that, by characterising Muslim men as oppressors and by emphasising the need to rescue Muslim women, these anti-Islam groups use gender equality to justify their prejudice.

Sara R. Farris is a senior lecturer in the sociology department at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Max Weber’s Theory of Personality. Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in the Sociology of Religion (Brill, 2013) and In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (Duke 2017).