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Stolen Honor Stolen Honor Stigmatizing muSlim men in Berlin Katherine Pratt Ewing Stanford University Press Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2008 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ewing, Katherine Pratt. Stolen honor : stigmatizing Muslim men in Berlin / Katherine Pratt Ewing. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-8047-5899-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8047-5900-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Muslims—Germany—Berlin—Social conditions. 2. Muslims—Germany—Berlin— Attitudes. 3. Social integration—Germany—Berlin. I. Title. BP65.G32B474 2008 305.38'6970943155—dc22 2007049982 Typeset by Bruce Lundquist in 10/14 Minion For my husband Thomas DiPrete and our daughters Julia, Bethany, and Justine Many immigrants come from patriarchal societies in which the honor of the woman is linked to the man, where sexual relations before marriage are forbidden and men determine how women should dress and how they should behave at home. If a woman breaks these rules, a man has lost control over his women—his wife, his sisters or his daughters. If a man can’t keep control of his women, he loses his honor in the community. Honor can be cleansed, in the worst-case scenario, through murder. It’s like erasing a dirty mark on the family. —Sibylle Schreiber, consultant on “violence in the name of honor” for terre des Femmes (german branch) ContentS Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Masculinity in a National Imaginary 1 Part 1 mythologizing the “traditional” man 1 Imagining Tradition: The Turkish Villager 27 2 Between Cinema and Social Work: Rescuing the Muslim Woman from the Muslim Man 52 3 Between Modernity and Tradition: Negotiating Stigmatization 94 4 Recovering Honor and Respect 122 Part 2 Stigmatized maSCulinity and the german national imaginary 5 The Honor Killing 151 6 National Controversies and Social Fantasies of the Other 180 7 Germanness and the Leitkultur Controversy: Protecting the Constitution from the Muslim Man 200 Epilogue 223 Notes 229 References 249 Index 271