Muslim Diaspora (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Culture and Identity
Redaktion: Moghissi, Haideh

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book charts the experiences of the Islamic diaspora around the world. It incorporates a broad range of case studies and includes issues such as identity, religious background and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135985400
• Artikelnr.: 38246749

Autorenporträt

Haideh Moghissi

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Diaspora and Identity: Violence and Exile
Representation 1. Diaspora: History of a Concept 2. Diaspora, Violence and
Identity 3. Islam and Consecrated Tortures 4. Islam in Diaspora and
Challenges to Multiculturalism: Shar'ia in Canada 5. Exilic Reading of
Three Religious Texts Part 2: Home and Exile: Gender and the Politics of
Memory 6. Divided Communities of Memory: Diasporas Come Home 7. Our
Reflections in their Mirror 8. In the Shadow of Europe: Mediterranean
Diasporas and Identity: Yesterday and Today 9. Gender, Nation and Diaspora:
Kurdish Women in Feminist Transnational Struggles 10. Discourses of
Islam/Secularism and Identity Building Processes among Turkish University
Youth Part 3: Contested Terrains: Islam, Gender and Struggles for
Continuity and Change 11. The Hijab Controversies in Western Public
Schools: Contrasting Conceptions of Ethnicity and of Ethnic Relations 12.
Islamophobia and Women of Pakistani Descent in Bradford: The Crisis of
Ascribed and Adopted Identities 13. Diasporic Narratives on Virginity 14.
Iranian American Elderly in California's Santa Clara Valley: Crafting
Selves and Composing Lives 15. Like Parvin, Like Najiba, Like Heba, We Are
All Different: Reflections on Voices of Women in Diaspora