Hypersexuality and Headscarves

"[T]his book is an important addition to scholarship on citizenship and minority inclusion/exclusion in Europe, adding a much-needed perspective on Germany to a field dominated by work on Britain and France. It is highly readable: Partridge has an easy, engaging style that makes the book eminently suitable for undergraduates, in addition to graduate students and specialists."—German Studies Review

"Hypersexuality and Headscarves is a critical analysis of the dynamics of race and citizenship in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. With this highly original investigation, Partridge offers an important contribution to the study of race in Germany."—Reviews & Critical Commentary

"[This] book's impressive ethnographic breadth thus serves to convey just how varied, pervasive, and entrenched the mechanisms of exclusion are in Germany. . . Taken as a whole, Partridge's portrait of exclusion in Germany is an illuminating and damning one. August 2013"—AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST

"Partridge shows how being included in the body politic can be a form of social control and exclusion. . . . Provides a case study for how one can look at identity politics in connection with the debates about human or national rights for citizens."—Sander L. Gilman, Emory University

"Opens up new horizons in conceptualizing the place of biologically non-German bodies in contemporary Germany."—Esra Özyürek, University of California, San Diego