Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin. By Katherine Pratt Ewing. Stanford/California: Stanford University Press, 2008. P. 282. Pbk. ISBN 978-0-8047-5900-7. $21.95. €13.83.

Constructions of masculinity that can be observed among Muslims of Turkish descent in Western Europe and especially in Germany are the focus of this book. Katherine Pratt Ewing considers these constructions both as ascriptions, on the one hand, and as self-descriptions, on the other. On the basis of Foucaultian discourse theory, she traces…