TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dornhof, Sarah
T1  - Regimes of visibility representing violence against women in the French banlieue
JF  - Feminist review
N2  - Recent discussions about violence against women have shifted their attention to specific forms of violence in relation to migration and Islam. In this article, I consider different modes of representing women's experiences in French immigrant communities. These representations relate to the French feminist movement Ni Putes Ni Soumises (neither whore nor submissive), a movement that in the early 2000s deplored both the sustained degradation of certain banlieue neighborhoods and also the charges and restrictions that this entails, particularly for young women. Drawing on different narratives and images of women's painful experience, I consider, in a first step, how the question of representing violence against (post) migrant women is framed in terms of the tension between universality and particularity within French republicanism. In the next part of my argument, I bring into focus the question of how to access women's suffering. For a perspective on pain not as an interiorized, private experience but as an accessible complex of practices, articulations, memories, visions and social reconfigurations, I consider Smain Laacher's sociological study (2008) about written testimonies of violent experience that had been addressed by (post) migrant women to French women organizations such as Ni Putes Ni Soumises. I finally suggest reading women's accounts on violence not in relation to a universal discourse of rights, but as a political contestation of the naturalized order of representing violence, suffering and agency inside French banlieue communities. Drawing on Jacques Ranciere's notion of dissensus, such a contestation can be staged through words by those who have no visibility in the representational order, words not to criticize the unaccomplished ideals of universal equality, but to create a universal community and a common language of experience in the mode of 'as-if'.
KW  - visibility
KW  - pain
KW  - violence against women
KW  - dissensus
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2011.2
SN  - 0141-7789
IS  - 98
SP  - 110
EP  - 127
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - Basingstoke
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dietzel, Irene
T1  - Innovation in the Orthodox Christian tradition? The question of change in Greek Orthodox thought and practice
JF  - Religion, state & society
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2015.1087116
SN  - 0963-7494
SN  - 1465-3974
VL  - 43
IS  - 3
SP  - 317
EP  - 319
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kosman, Admiʾel
T1  - The temptation in the garden of R. Hiyya bar Ashi and his wife
JF  - European Judaism
N2  - The narrative in BT Kiddushin 81b about R. Hiyya bar Ashi tells of a sage who waged a battle with his Urge after he refrained from engaging in sexual relations with his wife. He, however, did not reveal to her the battle being waged within him, but rather pretended to be an ‘angel’. When his wife incidentally found it, she disguised herself as a harlot and set out to seduce him. After they had engaged in sexual relations, the rabbi wanted to commit suicide. The traditional readings view R. Hiyya as the hero of the tale. This article claims that the aim of the narrative is to present the rabbi as being carried away by dualistic-Christian conceptions. The article further argues that the topic of the narrative is not sexual relations, but dialogue.
KW  - asceticism
KW  - dialogue
KW  - evil inclination
KW  - gender
KW  - Judaism
KW  - sex
KW  - Talmud
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2017.500214
SN  - 0014-3006
SN  - 1752-2323
VL  - 50
IS  - 2
SP  - 129
EP  - 146
PB  - Berghahn Journals
CY  - Brooklyn
ER  -