Beyond the hijab debates

Beyond the hijab debates new conversations on gender, race, and religion / [electronic resource] : edited by Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho. - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009. - 1 online resource (vii, 289 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-267).

Introduction -- New Conversations on Gender, Race and Religion -- Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho -- SECTION ONE: CONTESTING IMAGES OF "MUSLIM WOMEN" -- Media Hegemony, Activism and Identity: Muslim Women Representing -- Muslim Women -- Anne Aly -- Public Attitudes towards Hijab-wearing in Australia: Uncovering the Bases of Tolerance -- Kevin M. Dunn -- Finding the Women's Space: Muslim Women and the Mosque -- Jamila Hussain -- Recreating Community: Indigenous Women and Islam -- Peta Stephenson -- Looking In or Looking Out? Stories on the Multiple Meanings of Veiling -- Shakira Hussein SECTION TWO: GENDER, VIOLENCE AND PROTECTION -- Men Behaving Badly: The Moral Politics of White Hegemonic -- Masculinity in Australia -- Barbara Baird -- The New Protection: Indigenous Women and the Contemporary -- Australian State -- Nicole Watson -- Seeing Rape through Race-Coloured Glasses: Sydney c. 2000 -- Paula Abood -- Chapter N ine -- Safeguarding Masculinity, Protecting "our" Borders: The Banality of Sexual Violence in the Public Sphere in Australia -- Sharon Chalmers and Tanja Dreher -- Stop!: The Undirected Scripts of Sexual Morality -- Judy Lattas SECTION THREE: FUTURE POSSIBILITIES AT THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER, RACE AND RELIGION -- De-Orientalising Methodologies: Towards an Articulation of a Research -- Agenda for Working in/with Muslim Communities -- Alia Imtoual -- I'm not religious but A Secular Feminist Response to Interfaith -- Dialogue in Australia -- Barbara Bloch -- Hijab does not fit all: Recontextualising the Case for Secularism -- Bronwyn Winter -- "Recognising" each other in Conversations between Anglo Feminists and Muslim Women -- Chilla Bulbeck -- Invested with Violence: Culturalism, Coloniality and "Denationalised" -- Citizenships -- Suvendrini Perera -- B ibliography -- List of Contributors -- Notes

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Muslim women--Social conditions.
Muslim women--Religious life.
Minority women.
Women's rights.
Minority women--Social conditions.
Minority women--Religious life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies


Electronic books.

HQ1170 / .B444 2009eb

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