Muslim women : crafting a North American identity /

Stereotypes depict Muslim women as exotic, oppressed by Islam, subject to rigid notions of how to be an authentic and proper Muslim. Moving beyond traditional Western, Orientalist, and patriarchal discourse, Shahnaz suggests how Muslim women living in North America form their Islamic identity. Using...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Khan, Shahnaz
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2000.
Subjects:
Muslim women > Ontario > Toronto Metropolitan Area > Interviews.
Women immigrants > Ontario > Toronto Metropolitan Area > Interviews.
Women > Ontario > Toronto Metropolitan Area > Identity > Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Muslim women
Women > Identity
Women immigrants
Moslims.
Vrouwen.
Identiteit.
Ontario > Toronto Metropolitan Area
Toronto.
interviews.
Case studies
Interviews
Case studies.
Interviews.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Negotiating the Third Space
  • 2. Subjects of Study
  • 3. Resolving the Contradictions through Disavowal
  • 4. Negotiating the Ambivalence
  • 5. Selecting What to Believe.

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