Muslim Women in Austria and Germany Doing and Undoing Gender: Making Gender Differences and Hierarchies Relevant or Irrelevant by Constanze Volkmann

Abstract

The ambiguity of the category ‘Muslim women’ is emphasised at the very beginning of the introduction. This upfront addressing of an ambiguity demonstrates Constanze Volkmann’s awareness of the complexity of identifications in a highly politicised area, namely the amalgamation of Islam, migration, and gender. The author names the development of a new gender theory (p. 2) as the ambitious first of three aims of her book, next to the application of this new theory and empirical insights on life realities of those identifying as or being identified as Muslim women. This empirical work focuses on Austria and Germany as comparable