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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Falguni A. Sheth, "Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Description: In Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab (Oxford UP, 2022), Falguni Sheth explores the multiple ways that liberalism is understood and exploited, and liberalismâs origin as a project of British colonialism and as a legacy of settler colonialism in the U.S. The âunruly womenâ in the authorâs title are, in liberalism, women who do not conform or who are not âsuitably feministââlike Muslim women who veil or Black women who, really, simply exist. Falguni argues that certain key terms, such as professionalism, dismissiveness, excruciation, ontopolitics, and address are crucial to our understanding of the ways that women of co...