Islamic sisterhood
Subtitle: the meaning of veiling in post-9/11 New York
By: y Etsuko Maruoka-Donnelly
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781527508521
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Muslim women; Clothing
Description: Muslims have been major targets of hate crimes and discrimination in the US since 9/11. Anti-Muslim resentment increased again after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency adn revitalized far-right politics. In this hostile environment, why do many young Muslim women choose to wear a headscarf and publicly display their Islamic identity? This book unravels this puzzle by drawing on sociological insights and three years of ethnographic study with Muslim adolescents in New York during the post-9/11 backlash. It finds that young, American-born Muslim women choose to cover their hair and bodies not simply out of spiritual devotion to Islamic fundamentalism, but also, and primarily, to cope with social adversity rooted in sexism, racism, and patriarchy in both their ethnic community and the larger Western society. This book will appeal to scholars, students and other readers interested in the Muslim diaspora, gender, race and ethnicity, youth, immigration, and social movements--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [121]-132).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Chapter One. Joining the Hijabees Club; title: Chapter Two. Battles of American-born Daughters; title: Chapter Three. A Bargaining Chip in the Transnational Arranged Marriage Market; title: Chapter Four. "A Good Muslim Woman"; title: Chapter Five. Runway Veiling; title: Chapter Six. Wearing "Our Sword": Political Resistance in a post-9/11 Society; title: Conclusion.