It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

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Although I am not a bollywood fan esp of commercial movies which depicts frivolity and corrupts youth, esp when it comes to love and being obsessed with love ie Ashiqi. Coupled with soothing texts from the Qur’an, ‘The Clothes of My Faith’ is a gentle reminder to center ourselves and seek representation from the Almighty first and foremost.

It’s Not About the Burqa’ review: Politics around the veil ‘It’s Not About the Burqa’ review: Politics around the veil

Mir’s essay outlines some of the gruelling challenges faced by a minority of Muslim women who are expected to conduct themselves as both trophy wives and domestic slaves.As much as this book is a dialogue with the reader, we, the contributors were speaking to each other too. It shows how every day Muslim women have to liberate themselves from identities that are thrust upon them. Raifa Rafiq speaks on an important issue: the hegemonic image of a Muslim woman in the UK being a thin, South Asian and light-skinned. Subtly, it advocates acknowledging that you need not explain your actions regarding clothing as a Muslim woman because the questions mask something bigger: the way a woman dresses is always open to criticism and Muslim women have become one of its biggest victims.

It’s Not About the Burqa: Transversing Heterotopia and It’s Not About the Burqa: Transversing Heterotopia and

I’m so glad I purchased this book because I can see myself rereading it sometime in the near future. This book brings clarity to what can be a confusing subject by disentangling the different strands of the problem and breaking through the accusations of misogyny and Islamophobia. Published in association with the SPA, this comprehensive analysis of the current state of social policy will be of interest to students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines. I have generally been avoiding white feminism because it doesn’t serve me, and the more I inhabit spaces outside of my community, the more I realise that my gender doesn’t seem to be much of the issue, but more so my faith and race.For obvious reasons, that comment was entirely presumptuous and ignorant, but it opened up my eyes to the fact that I didn’t feel liberated at all. Yet all these notions are assigned to women who wear the niqab without their consultation; “niqab debates” are held without their voices being heard, and, when they do speak, their views are dismissed.