It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

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Beschreibung

In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the "traditional submissiveness" of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn’t know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female? Years later the state of the discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women’s voices are still pushed to the fringes—the figures leading the discussion are white and male. Taking one of the most politicized and misused words associated with Muslim women and Islamophobia, It’s Not About the Burqa is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won’t see represented in the news headlines: 17 Muslim women speaking frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of a disapproving community and a racist country. With a mix of British and international women writers, from activist Mona Eltahawy's definition of a revolution to journalist and broadcaster Saima Mir telling the story of her experience of arranged marriage, from author Sufiya Ahmed on her Islamic feminist icon to playwright Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's moving piece about her relationship with her hijab, these essays are funny, warm, sometimes sad, and often angry, and each of them is a passionate declaration calling time on the oppression, the lazy stereotyping, the misogyny and the Islamophobia. What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa. Here’s what it’s really about.

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essay collection i can only recommend. for context, very much UK based but still a great overall insight and interesting and touching stories. would love to read this concept from other muslim communities around the world.

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Every article gave a new insight

Ich habe mich entschieden diesem Buch kein Rating zu geben. Es umfasst sehr viele Essays die mir unterschiedlich gut gefielen weshalb ich es schwer fände alles zusammen zu fassen. Zudem waren viele der Essays sehr persönlich was es auch schwierig macht diese zu bewerten. Zusammenfassend kann ich sagen es war spannend von diesen vielen unterschiedlichen Stimmen zu hören.

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