Muslim American women on campus :
Mir, Shabana.
Muslim American women on campus : undergraduate social life and identity / Shabana Mir. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny--scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on Campus illuminates the processes by which a group of ethnically diverse American college women, all identifying as Muslim and all raised in the United States, construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives. Mir, an anthropologist of education, focuses on key leisure practices--drinking, dating, and fashion--to probe how Muslim American students adapt to campus life and build social networks that are seamlessly American, Muslim, and youthful. In this lively and highly accessible book, we hear the women's own often poignant voices as they articulate how they find spaces within campus culture as well as their Muslim student communities to grow and assert themselves as individuals, women, and Americans. Mir concludes, however, that institutions of higher learning continue to have much to learn about fostering religious diversity on campus"-- "Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny--scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on Campus illuminates the processes by which a group of ethnically diverse American college women, all identifying as Muslim and all raised in the United States, construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives"--
9781469612614 (electronic bk.) 1469612615 (electronic bk.)
Muslim women--Social life and customs.--United States
Women college students--Conduct of life.--United States
Women college students--Social life and customs.--United States
Muslim women--Conduct of life.
Muslims--Ethnic identity.--United States
RELIGION / Islam / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
Electronic books.
HQ1170 / .M567 2014eb
305.6/97
Muslim American women on campus : undergraduate social life and identity / Shabana Mir. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny--scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on Campus illuminates the processes by which a group of ethnically diverse American college women, all identifying as Muslim and all raised in the United States, construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives. Mir, an anthropologist of education, focuses on key leisure practices--drinking, dating, and fashion--to probe how Muslim American students adapt to campus life and build social networks that are seamlessly American, Muslim, and youthful. In this lively and highly accessible book, we hear the women's own often poignant voices as they articulate how they find spaces within campus culture as well as their Muslim student communities to grow and assert themselves as individuals, women, and Americans. Mir concludes, however, that institutions of higher learning continue to have much to learn about fostering religious diversity on campus"-- "Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny--scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on Campus illuminates the processes by which a group of ethnically diverse American college women, all identifying as Muslim and all raised in the United States, construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives"--
9781469612614 (electronic bk.) 1469612615 (electronic bk.)
Muslim women--Social life and customs.--United States
Women college students--Conduct of life.--United States
Women college students--Social life and customs.--United States
Muslim women--Conduct of life.
Muslims--Ethnic identity.--United States
RELIGION / Islam / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
Electronic books.
HQ1170 / .M567 2014eb
305.6/97
