Muslim diaspora : gender, culture, and identity / edited by Haideh Moghissi.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge Islamic studiesPublication details: London, UK : Routledge, 2006Description: xxv, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0415770815; 9780415770811Subject(s): Ethnology -- Islamic countries | Muslim diaspora | Islam -- Customs and practices | Islam and culture | Multiculturalism | Gender identity -- Islamic countriesDDC classification: 306.6/97 LOC classification: GN641 | .M87 2006Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher descriptionItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | University of Macedonia Library Βιβλιοστάσιο Α (Stack Room A) | Main Collection | GN641.M87 2006 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0013101518 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Diaspora, identity, representation and violence. 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 -- pt. 2. Home and exile : gender and politics of memory. 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 -- pt. 3. Contested Terrains : Islam, gender and struggles for continuity and change. 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 Elaine Hegland -- Like Parvin, like Najiba, like Heba, we are all different : reflections on voices of women in diaspora / Afsaneh Hojabri.
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