Full Description
Muslim women's freedom, or assumed lack thereof, has long been a Western obsession. Almost never do we ask, what does agency look like to Muslim women? Who or what do they think constrains them, and how do they challenge that? Focussing on the little-researched area of the Australian Muslim community, this book brings together for the first time diverse accounts from Australian Muslim researchers, leaders, and community workers to interrogate how Muslim women understand, experience, and fight for agency. Academic and activist, personal and political, this ground-breaking book features the people at the centre of the debate.
Contributors are Feda Abdo, Amira Aftab, Mahsheed Ansari, Fadi Baghdadi, Susan Carland, Tasneem Chopra, Mehreen Faruqi, Derya Iner, Balawyn Jones, Souha Korbatieh, Ghena Krayem, Mehal Krayem and Ayah Wehbe.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Susan Carland and Ghena Krayem
2 Al-Mu'minah Down Under: The Untold Stories and Legacies of Muslim Women Pioneers in Australia
Mahsheed Ansari
3 Muslim Women's Agency Through a Feminist Institutionalist Lens
Amira Aftab
4 Western and Australian Women's Agency to Counter Islamophobia
Derya Iner and Souha Korbatieh
5 Muslim Women's Agency in Australian Domestic Violence Services
Ghena Krayem and Mehal Krayem
6 The Pathology of Hyper Masculinity and Abuse in Muslim Leadership
Tasneem Chopra
7 The Difficulty of Muslim Women Fighting Sexism: Then and Now
Susan Carland
8 Rejecting the Reductionism of Muslim Women
Fadi Baghdadi
9 'Left out' and 'Ignored': Experiences of Australian, Lebanese-Muslim Women with Hearing Loss
Ayah Wehbe
10 Finding a Way Forward: The Revival of Female Islamic Scholarship in Australia
Feda Abdo and Balawyn Jones
11 Politics of Representation: Overcoming the Narrow Perception of Muslim Women
Mehreen Faruqi
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