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Muslim diaspora : gender, culture and identity /

Title
Muslim diaspora : gender, culture and identity / edited by Haideh Moghissi.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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Additional Authors
Moghissi, Haideh, 1944-
Description
xxv, 238 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Routledge Islamic studies
Subject
  • Ethnology > Islamic countries
  • Gender identity > Islamic countries
  • Islam > Customs and practices
  • Islam and culture
  • Multiculturalism
  • Muslim diaspora
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Diaspora : history of an idea / Denise Helly -- Islam in diaspora and challenges to multiculturalism / Saeed Rahnema -- Exilic readings of the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran / Reza Baraheni -- Diaspora, ethnicity and problems of identity / Mark J. Goodman -- Islam and consecrated tortures / Ezat Mossallanejad -- Divided communities of memory : diasporas come home / Mary Ann Tétreault -- 'Our' reflections in 'their' mirror : cultural politics and the representation of the Iranian diaspora in the Islamic Republic / Hammed Shahidian -- Gender, nation and diaspora : Kurdish women in feminist transnational struggles / Shahrzad Mojab -- Discourses of Islam/secularism and identity-building processes among Turkish University youth / Aylin Akpinar -- The hijab controversies in Western public schools : contrasting conceptions of ethnicity and of ethnic relations / Marie McAndrew -- Islamophobia and women of Pakistani descent in Bradford : the crisis of ascribed and adopted identities / Haleh Afshar, Robert Aitken and Myfanwy Franks -- Diasporic narratives on virginity / Fataneh Farahani -- Iranian-American elderly in California's Santa Clara valley : crafting selves and composing lives / Mary Hegland -- Like Parvin, like Najiba, like Heba, we are all different : reflections on voices of women in diaspora / Afsaneh Hojabri.
ISBN
0415770815 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006002146
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library