The Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture and Identity Book

Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture and Identity


Table of Contents

Introduction: Haideh Moghissi

I. Diaspora and Identity: Violence and Exilic Representation

Chapter One: Diaspora: History of an Idea by Denise Helly

Chapter Two: Islam in Diaspora and Challenges to Multiculturalism by Saeed Rahnema

Chapter Three: Exilic Readings of the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran by Reza Baraheni

Chapter Four: Diaspora, Ethnicity and Problems of Identity by Mark J. Goodman

Chapter Five: Islam and Consecrated Tortures by Ezat Mossallanejad


II. Home and Exile: Gender and Politics of Memory

Chapter Six: Divided Communities of Memory: Diasporas Come Home by Mary Ann Tetreault

Chapter Seven: "Our" Reflections in "Their" Mirror: Cultural Politics and the Representation of the Iranian Diaspora in the Islamic Republic by Hammed Shahidian

Chapter Eight: Gender, Nation and Diaspora: Kurdish Women in Feminist Transnational Struggles by Shahrzad Mojab

Chapter Nine: Discourses of Islam/Secularism and Identity-Building Processes among Turkish University Youth by Aylin Akpinar
III. Contested Terrains: Islam, Gender and Struggles for Continuity and Change
Chapter Ten: The Hijab Controversies in Western Public Schools: Contrasting Conceptions of Ethnicity and of Ethnic Relations by Marie Mc Andrew

Chapter Eleven: Islamophobia and Women of Pakistani Descent in Bradford: The Crisis of Ascribed and Adopted Identities by Haleh Afshar, Robert Aitken and Myfanwy Franks

Chapter Twelve: Diasporic Narratives on Virginity by Fataneh Farahani

Chapter Thirteen: Iranian-American Elderly inCalifornias Santa Clara Valley: Crafting Selves and Composing Lives by Mary Hegland

Chapter Fourteen: Like Parvin, Like Najiba, Like Heba, We Are All Different: Reflections on Voices of Women in Diaspora by Afsaneh Hojabri