Muslim Women Activists in North America : : Speaking for Ourselves /

Muslim Women Activists in North America : : Speaking for Ourselves / / ed. by Katherine Bullock.

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In the eyes of many Westerners, Muslim women are hidden behind a veil of negative stereotypes that portray them as either oppressed, subservient wives and daughters or, more recently, as potential terrorists. Yet many Muslim women defy these stereotypes by taking active roles in their families and c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Al-Marayati, Laila,
Amatul Nur, Samadah Raquibah,
Barazangi, Nimat Hafez,
Beshir, Ekram,
Bhabha, Mariam,
Bullock, Katherine,
Farooqi, Muniza,
Haffajee, Khadija,
Hamid, Rose,
Jafri, Gul Joya,
Monem, Olivia,
Mustapha, Nadira,
Rahman, Mona,
Sabir-Gillette, Margaret,
Shamma, Freda,
Siddiqui, Samana,
Siddiqui, Shahina,
Taylor, Tayyibah,
HerausgeberIn:
Bullock, Katherine,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2005
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (237 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One Silent Revolution of a Muslim Arab American Scholar-Activist
  • Chapter Two Allah Doesn’t Change the Condition of People until They Change Themselves
  • Chapter Three War Zones
  • Chapter Four Activism as a Way of Life
  • Chapter Five My Life Journey
  • Chapter Six Rawahil
  • Chapter Seven Rocking the Boat and Stirring the Pot
  • Chapter Eight Struggling with Words, Striving through Words
  • Chapter Nine Working to Help All the World’s Children
  • Chapter Ten Building a Community for the Next Generation
  • Chapter Eleven In Pursuit of Peace and Justice
  • Chapter Twelve Activism
  • Chapter Thirteen Activism
  • Chapter Fourteen Life of a Muslim Woman Activist
  • Chapter Fifteen Muslim Activist
  • Chapter Sixteen Taking the Bus to the World of Islamic Activism
  • Chapter Seventeen Is the Reward for Good Other than Good?
  • Chapter Eighteen Undoing Internalized Inferiority
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • About the Contributors

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