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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"Muslim women"”.
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Beyong the veil : Muslim women write back
… Ba as well as that of selected works by fellow Muslim writer, N awal El-Saadawi. Although the question of gender is carefully addressed, the principal viewpoint is Islamic theocratic rather than purely feminist. This study surveys the struggle of these two women writers to claim public space in …
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Qissati. Counterstories of Muslim Women School Administrators in Schools
… and illuminate the embodied experiences of Muslim women school leaders in Ontario public schools. Critical analysis of individual and group interviews with seven Muslim women public school administrators (principals and vice principals), autobiographical writing/reflection, and scholarship …
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Interpreting ‘living law’ amongst Muslim women in the UK
… understand and articulate the ways in which Muslim women view and interpret crime, deviance and moral dilemmas in contemporary society. This study will evaluate the contrasts and overlaps between religious ideologies, cultural values and secular norms in relation to Muslim women’s …
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Muslim women in Cape Town : a feminist narrative analysis
… very little has been written about the roles of Muslim women and their contributions to the development of Islam in this country. In addition, there is a dearth of academic work on the ways in which Muslim women in South Africa identify themselves. Of the writing that does exist, there is an …
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The Experiences of Professional Muslim Women in the Canadian Workplace
… investigates the experiences of professional Muslim women in Canada. It examines the intricate interplay of religion, race/ethnicity, sect, and gender along with various other facets of identity within this diverse community. This study focuses on Canadian-born and immigrant Muslim women, …
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Religiosity and psychological well-being in South Asian Muslim women
… to shame and self-compassion in South Asian (SA) Muslim women. The study’s qualitative component explored the conceptualisation of shame. The results show that orthodoxy and spirituality are related yet distinct entities. Greater shame associates with lower self-compassion. No significant …
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Identity, religion, and clothing : the lives of British Muslim women
The continuing discourse around Muslim women’s bodies has predominately occupied itself with ideas of ‘traditional’ Islamic dress such as the Hijab, Burka, and the Niqab. Rarely has the image of the Muslim woman moved away from these popular discourses to show the various other forms of dress worn …
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Contemporary discourses on Muslim women and veiling : a critical analysis
… that dominant discourses on veiling objectify Muslim women and do not engage with Muslim women dialogically as subjects capable of agency and selfdefinition. In this thesis I explore this problem critically within two different contexts, namely in selected Muslim minority contexts of Europe and …
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Besieged Life: Subjecting Liberal Muslim Women in the War on Terror
… inquiry examines the subjection of young British Muslim women in a northern, post-industrial city in Britain. Research has established that Muslim women are constructed by security policy, popular media, film, television, and the news as abnormal, suspicious, and lacking agency. This racialised …
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Non English speaking background migrant Muslim women and migrant English language provision
… by non-English speaking background migrant Muslim women to access or not access their eligibility for English language tuition, as set out by current policies governing the eligibility of migrants to participate in Adult Migrant Education programs. As such, the study is of particular …
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How Stereotypes influence the hiring of Muslim women in the United States
… discrimination, potential discrimination against Muslim women wearing the hijab is possible. The purpose of this study was to describe how religious stereotypes and religious artifacts may influence hiring and what the origin of this phenomenon is. A phenomenological perspective was used in this …
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Muslim family law: British-Bangladeshi Muslim women and divorce in the UK
… research problem is situated in discussions on Muslim women’s rights in topics such as Shariah law, multiculturalism and legal pluralism. These may echo concerns that classical interpretation of Muslim family law (MFL) follows patriarchal practices that discriminate against Muslim women, whilst …
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Pregnancy as status enhancement: a study of Muslim women in the Philippines
… interviews of a sample of 118 currently married Muslim women. Data for the study were collected from the Northern Mindanao Region of the Philippines. This study is part of a larger study that included both Christians and Muslims. The Christian sample was the subject of an earlier study by …
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Fashion, performance and the politics of belonging among Muslim women in Cape Town
… has emerged in Cape Town and how Capetonian Muslim women are appropriating hijab fashion as a means of redefining themselves as Muslim South Africans instead of ?Cape Malays?, the ethnic label given to Muslims in the Western Cape during the apartheid era. I argue that through self stylisation …
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Muslim Women on the Catholic Campus: The Search for Identity, Community, and Understanding
… to study, but also from within the U.S. More Muslim American students are entering colleges in the U.S. than ever before and the number is expected to swell in coming years (Institute of International Education, 2011). American colleges and universities who face the challenge of integrating …
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A qualitative study into the negotiation of dual identity in British Muslim women
… the negotiation of identity among British born Muslim women living in London in 2016. Semi-structured narrative interviews were carried out with five British Muslim women with the resulting data analysed using Critical Narrative Analysis. The analysis resulted in two overarching constructions; …
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Muslim women in Australia and the Netherlands: A multimodal enquiry into television documentary representations
… unquestioned. Hereby the appearances of veiled Muslim women continue to be used by the media as a visual symbol confirming Islam’s difference in norms and values with the West. Framed within the understanding that television documentaries provide audiences with ‘unscripted’ realities of both …
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Muslim women in colonial North India circa 1920-1947 : politics, law and community identity
… explores the relationship between gender and Muslim community identity in late colonial India. It pursues two broad themes. The first of these is the way in which gender issues were used symbolically by Muslim religious and political leaders to give substance to a community identity based …
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