It's Not About the Burqa

Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

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<p><b><i>It's Not About the Burqa</i> is an anthology of frank and insightful essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience.<br><br>'Passionate, angry, self-effacing, nuanced and utterly compelling in every single way' - Nikesh Shukla, editor of <i>The Good Immigrant</i></b><br><br><b><i>When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter?</i></b><br><br>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?<br><br>Years later the state of the national 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.<br><br>Taking one of the most politicized and misused words associated with Muslim women and Islamophobia, <i>It's Not About the Burqa</i> is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won't see represented in the national news headlines: seventeen 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781509886425

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

199 x 128 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan Macmillan