![]() ![]() Leads to their being pelted with food in public are something other than submissive. ![]() But women who wear a garment that annoys their families, that provokes regular verbal abuse and ![]() Officials often argue that Muslim women are too submissive to challenge extremist views even within their own families. Inge found that nearly all of the Salafi women she followed in her research decided to wear the face veil against the wishes - sometimes despite the threats of family members, who saw it as too extreme, too Arab, too rebellious. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the i-newspaper This is an under-researched subject and so any credible information is very welcome.Īzadeh Moaveni, London Review of Books rich portrait. But for anyone, it is a damn good read.ĭamian Thompson & Christina Odone, The Spectator If you want to understand British Islam, you need to read it. It could also be read with benefit by feminists and by those with an interest in qualitative methodology. Obviously enough, this is a book that should be read by anyone concerned about new We learn to see these women as women, facing the challenges of life in a contemporary western society that is not infrequently hostile-especially to women who are assumed to be either aggressively extremist or browbeaten victims of Islamophobia. Inge is both systematically rigorous and sensitively empathic. Eileen Barker, Nova Religio This is an ethnography of the very best kind. ![]()
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