Since the turn of the century, Muslim women have been represented negatively in Western notions, as one and the same; a diverse womankind reduced to one universal image: oppressed victims who need to be saved from their religion and culture. On one hand, this thesis shows how this unfairly simplified image has a complex consequence for how Muslim women are perceived in German society and how it terrorizes their sense of belonging and influences their self-representations. On the other hand, it ...