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Racialized bodies, disabling worlds : storied lives of immigrant Muslim women / Parin Dossa.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dossa, Parin Aziz, 1945-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Muslim women--Canada.
Muslim women.
Women with disabilities--Canada.
Women with disabilities.
Women immigrants--Canada.
Women immigrants.
Muslim women--Canada--Interviews.
Women with disabilities--Canada--Interviews.
Women immigrants--Canada--Interviews.
Marginality, Social--Canada.
Marginality, Social.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (203 p.)
Place of Publication:
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2009.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
In Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds, Parin Dossa explores the lives of Canadian Muslim women who share their stories of social marginalization and disenfranchisement in a disabling world. She shows how these women, who are subjected to social erasure in policy and research, define their identities and claim their humanity using the language of everyday life. Based on narrative ethnography, Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds makes a case for positive acknowledgement of perceived differences of nationality, religion, multiple-abilities, and gendered and race-based identities. It offers a powerful argument for bridging two disparate bodies of work: disability studies and anti-racist feminism. Most significantly, it shows how racialized Muslim women with disabilities are redefining the parameters of their social worlds and developing a distinctively pluralistic understanding of abilities. This ground-breaking work gives presence to the lives of people who are otherwise rendered socially invisible.
Contents:
1. Mapping the methodology and sociopolitical contexts
2. The difference of disability
3. Narrative moments from the margins
4. Writing dislocation : telling her-story
5. Women as subject : multi-voiced narration
Conclusion. Alternative spaces
establishing connections.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-183) and index.
ISBN:
9781442692763
1442692766
9781442688919
1442688912
OCLC:
604057529

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