Unruly Women

Falguni A. Sheth is Associate Professor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Toward a Political Philosophy of Race (SUNY Press, 2009); the co-editor of Race, Liberalism, and Economics (University of Michigan Press, 2004). Sheth has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the New School for Social Research. Sheth's areas of expertise include race and state-sanctioned violence, national security politics, postcolonial and transnational feminist theory, and critical race and legal studies. She has published numerous articles in political and feminist philosophy, in legal, and critical race theory, and in the philosophy of race. Sheth was a columnist for Salon.com, where she wrote about race, national security, and politics. She has written for a range of public venues including Alternet and Common Dreams. For 15 years, she has been the co-organizer of the California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, founded as a forum on philosophy, race, and relatedthemes.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Ontopolitics: Unruliness, Excruciation, and Dismissal2. Anxieties of Liberalism: Secularism, Feminism, and Suitable Muslim Women3. A Genealogy of Neocolonial Social Comportment4. The Hijab and the Sari: The Strange and the Sexy Between Colonialism and Global Capitalism5. Reversing the Gaze: The Racial-Cultural Aesthetics of Power6. Transparency and the Deceptive Conceit of Liberalism7. EEOC v. Abercrombie and Fitch: Discrimination, Neoliberalism, and Suitable Women8. Dismissal: Neocolonialism, Race and Anti-BlacknessConclusion Listening to the SilencesAppendix IBibliographyReferences

Theoretically sophisticated, written in dense prose, and in deep conversation with influential thinkers on race and racism, the book holds a critical mirror before American liberalism as neocolonialism, thereby transcending and enriching conversations in the fields of Islamic and religious studies.