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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Although US history is marred by institutionalized racism and
sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized
politics. Violence against people of color, transgendered and gay
people, and women soar upon the backdrop of Donald Trump, Tea Party
affiliates, alt-right members like Richard Spencer, and right-wing
political commentators like Milo Yiannopoulos who defend their
racist and sexist commentary through legalistic claims of freedom
of speech. While more institutions recognize the volatility of
these white men's speech, few notice or have thoughtfully
considered the role of white nationalist, alt-right, and
conservative white women's messages that organizationally preserve
white supremacy. In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity
Politics, and the Internet, author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how
white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and
web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation
of white supremacy, which conservative political actors including
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee
Sanders, and Ivanka Trump have amplified through transnational
politics. By validating racial fears and political divisiveness
through coded white identity politics, postfeminist and motherhood
discourse functions as a colorblind, gilded cage. Rebirthing a
Nation reveals how white nationalist women utilize colorblind
racism within digital space, exposing how a postfeminist framework
becomes fodder for conservative white women's political speech to
preserve institutional white supremacy.
In Moroccan Female Religious Agents: Old Practices and New
Perspectives, Ouguir studies Moroccan female religious agents in
particular historical women saints and Sufis, the way they
constructed powerful saintly personalities that challenged the
dominant conventional norms, and the way they are received by
venerators and feminist Islamist activists of modern Morocco.
Through hagiographic and oral narratives, Ouguir examines the
techniques religious women followed to achieve ethical
self-formation and strong religious personalities that promoted
them to leadership. She also examined the venerators', murshid t
and Islamist feminists' reception of women saints in their
discourses. Ouguir states convincingly that Moroccan religious
women agents in both Morocco's past and present are to be
highlighted for broader discourses on Muslim women and feminism.
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