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  • North American Muslim Women Artists Talk Back

    Assertions of Unintelligibility

    by Kenza Oumlil ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender, Sexuality, and Media
    This book focuses on the ways in which North American Muslim women artists "talk back" to dominant discourses about Muslim identity and work to counter mainstream stereotypes and representations. It examines the possibilities of constructing discourses of resistance to domination.Against a backdrop of dominant media representations of oppressed and passive Muslim women, the media interventions of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

    by Lila Abu-Lughod ...
    Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Politics of Piety

    The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

    by Saba Mahmood ...
    Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Terrorist Assemblages

    Homonationalism in Queer Times

    by Jasbir K. Puar ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Tenth Anniversary Expanded EditionTen years on, Jasbir K. Puar’s pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and scholarly pursuits. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

    by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington’s contested idea of a clash of civilizations became such a powerful political myth through which so many people look at the world?Bottici and Challand disentangle such a process of myth-making both in the West and in Muslim majority ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Authoritarian Apprehensions

    Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

    by Lisa Wedeen ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In Authoritarian Apprehensions, Lisa Wedeen draws on her decades-long engagement with Syria to offer an erudite and compassionate analysis of this extraordinary rush of events ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canadian Islamic Schools

    Unravelling the Politics of Faith, Gender, Knowledge, and Identity

    by Jasmin Zine ...
    Religious schooling in Canada has been a controversial subject since the secularization of the public school system, but there has been little scholarship on Islamic education. In this ethnographic study of four full-time Islamic schools, Jasmin Zine explores the social, pedagogical, and ideological functions of these alternative, and religiously-based educational institutions. Based on eighteen ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Arabs and Muslims in the Media

    Race and Representation after 9/11

    by Evelyn Alsultany ...
    Series series Critical Cultural Communication
    After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media. Arabs and Muslims in the Media examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of “the enemy” during the War on Terror.Evelyn Alsultany explains that a new ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Women Claim Islam

    Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

    by Miriam Cooke ...
    This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible. ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Islam and Secularity

    The Future of Europe's Public Sphere

    by Nilüfer Göle ...
    Series series Public Planet Books
    In Islam and Secularity Nilüfer Göle takes on two pressing issues: the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Göle shows how the visibility of Islamic practice in the European public sphere unsettles narratives of Western secularism. As mutually constitutive, Islam and secularism permeate each other, the effects of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • On Shifting Ground

    Muslim Women in the Global Era

    Edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone ...
    "Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women" (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic issues, and cultural revolutions both positive and negative. Nowhere have those changes been felt more ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transnational Muslim Politics

    Reimagining the Umma

    by Peter G. Mandaville ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    This book analyzes Islam as a form of 'travelling theory' in the context of contemporary global transformations such as diasporic communities, transnational social movements, global cities and information technologies. Peter Mandaville examines how 'globalization' is manifested as lived experience through a discussion of debates over the meaning of Muslim identity, political community and the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD