Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
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Taschenbuch, 272 Seiten
Picador, 6. Februar 2020
ISBN 978-1509886425
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When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter?
When writer Mariam Khan found herself increasingly frustrated with a national discourse that marginalized Muslim women’s voices, she decided it was time for something new. Why was she only hearing about Muslim women from other people? Why weren’t Muslim women given the chance to speak for themselves?
It’s not aboout the burqa is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won’t see represented in the headlines: seventeen Muslim women speaking frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of disapproving community and a racist country. These essays are funny, warm, sometimes sad, and often angry, and each is a passionate declaration calling time on oppression, lazy stereotyping, misogyny and Islamophobia.
What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, it’s all about the burqa.
Here’s what it’s really about.
Mariam Khan, geboren 1993 und in Birmingham aufgewachsen, ist Autorin und feministische Aktivistin. In It‘s not about the burqa bringt sie muslimische Frauen zusammen um über sich und ihre eigenen Erfahrungen zu berichten.
„When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? Or outside the white gaze? On her own terms? Or outside the narrative built around us by the media and governments?“
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17 Frauen schreiben hier über Glauben, Liebe, Rassismus, Feminismus und Queere Identität im Islam. Teils humorvoll, teils traurig, teils wütend. Warm, berührend, ehrlich und frei. Ich konnte hier einiges lernen und mitnehmen. Eine unheimlich wichtige Sammlung von own voices und absolut empfehlenswert. Ich hoffe es wird übersetzt, damit noch mehr Menschen diese Essays lesen können.
„It was Confucius who said that you cannot open a book without learning something.“
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