Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index.
Introduction: masculinity in a national imaginary -- Imagining tradition: the Turkish villager -- Between cinema and social work: rescuing the Muslim woman from the Muslim man -- Between modernity and tradition: negotiating stigmatization -- Recovering honor and respect -- The honor killing -- National controversies and social fantasies of the other -- Germanness and the Leitkultur controversy: protecting the Constitution from the Muslim man