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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
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Representing Muslim Women Converts in Algerian Newspaper’s discourse
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia Reformata Transylvanica, 2017 Women representation in media has been a hot debate for many years. More specifically the debate about Muslim women converts. Their cases represent a fertile ground to be investigated as belonging to a community that has been discussed for a long time in
Meriem ZERIFI, Abdelhay BAKHTA
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Breaking stereotypes: two generations of Muslim women [PDF]
, 1999 "The stereotyped image of Muslim women as educationally backward and their being non-responsive to social change etc. seems to be an exaggerated perception which has been the staple of mainstream academics and media projections.
Hussain, Sabiha
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2017 American imperialism and the war on terror loom large in today’s popular romances. Military romances featuring spec-ops warriors and their terrorist enemies appeal to, reflect on, and sometimes critique patriotic ideals.
Kecia Ali
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Muslim women as ‘ambassadors’ of Islam: breaking stereotypes in everyday life [PDF]
Identities, 2017 This article explores the efforts of Dutch Muslim women who try to break the ‘oppressed Muslim woman’ stereotype by monitoring their own behaviour in everyday interactions with members of the non-Muslim ethnic majority. In representing themselves as modern and emancipated, they try to change the dominant image of Muslim women in Dutch society, and thus
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Glocalizing’ the Hijab: A Malaysian Perspective
SHS Web of Conferences, 2017 This article examined the hijab, or the act of veiling as a transformative socialization agent for Malay-Muslims in Malaysia’s multicultural state. Through the media, the hijab was purported as a progressive lifestyle with representations of veiled ...
Hassim Nurzihan
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Muslim Women’s Experiences of Higher Education in Britain
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2007 I explore British South Asian Muslim women’s experiences of higher education and how it impacts identity construction and negotiation. Through semi-structured interviews with thirty-five undergraduate and post-graduate Muslim female university students ...
Fauzia Ahmad
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Heliyon, 2020 We describe the evolution of a stereotype as it emerged in tweets about the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris in early 2015. Our focus is on terms associated with the Muslim community and the Islamic world. The data (400k tweets) were collected via
Yousri Marzouki +4 more
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