The Discourse of ‘the Muslim Woman’ in the German Feminist Magazine EMMA from the late 1970s to 80s

This thesis elaborates on the discourse surrounding the Muslim woman in the West German feminist magazine EMMA. It looks at how feminist publishers at the EMMA magazine perceived the Muslim woman from the 1970’s to 80’s in context of their own emancipation movement. The creation of a discourse always uncovers a lot about those who created it. Henceforth, it claims that the feminists of that time created a discourse of the Muslim woman for several reasons. First, to secure their own emancipation status but ‘othering’ the Muslim women also revealed a general negative attitude of the Western world towards the Muslim as such. This attitude became visible due to the great migration, of in particular Turkish people West Germany was dealing with between the early 1960s to 80s. The Muslim woman became the central focus of discussion for representing the great differences between not only the feminists but in general the West and the East, or better: the West and the other