Shattering The Stereotypes
Subtitle: Muslim Women Speak Out
Contributors: Nawal El Saadawi (Foreword); Fawzia Afzal-Khan (Editor)
Publisher: Olive Branch Press
Published: March 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781566565691
Subjects: Social Science; Stereotype (Psychology); Muslim women; Islamic History; Sociology Of Women; Women in Islam; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; Muslim women in literature; Middle Eastern; Women's Studies - General; Islam - Sufism; United States; Ethnic Studies - General; Islam - Sufi
First sentence: Since 9/11, I have written and published several essays examining the reductive discourses that sprang up, mushroom-like, in mainstream media (particularly within the U.S.) to explain that apocalyptic moment in terms of an "Us/Them" binary.