Muslim women speak : of dreams and shackles / Ghazala Jamil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jamil, Ghazala, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women--India.

Muslim women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, [California] : Sage, 2018.

Summary:

The book analyses Indian Muslim women's narratives, bringing forth 'voices' that have long been considered 'silent' and challenges the image of Muslim women as victims of Islam.

Contents:

Introduction

Discursive colonization

Representation and "listening"

Portrait of a researcher as a Muslim woman

Everyday of inhabiting margins

Dreaming in shackles

Memory and experience of violence

I speak, therefore I am articulation as shaping of "self"

I did not know myself

Select narratives from states

A call for change

Bibliography

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

93-5280-502-X

93-5280-501-1