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ERIC #:
EJ740749
Title:
Unveiled Sentiments: Gendered Islamophobia and Experiences of Veiling among Muslim Girls in a Canadian Islamic School
Authors:
Zine, Jasmin
Descriptors:
Islam; Experience; Muslims; Females; Foreign Countries; Racial Bias; Gender Bias; High School Students; Cultural Influences; Social Bias; Public Schools; Feminism
Source:
Equity & Excellence in Education, v39 n3 p239-252 Aug 2006
Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Fax: 215-625-2940. Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/default.html.
Publication Date:
2006-08-00
Pages:
14
Pub Types:
Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Abstract:
The practice of veiling has made Muslim women subject to dual oppressions--racism and Islamophobia--in society at large and patriarchal oppression and sexism from within their communities. Based on a narrative analysis of the politics of veiling in schools and society, the voices of young Muslim women attending a Canadian Islamic school speak to the contested notion of gender identity in Islam. The narratives situate their various articulations of Islamic womanhood in ways that both affirm and challenge traditional religious notions. At the same time they also are subject to Orientalist representations of veiled and burqa clad women that represent them as oppressed and backward. Focusing on ethnographic accounts of veiling among Muslims girls who attended a gender-segregated Islamic high school in Toronto, this discussion allows a deeper understanding of how gendered religious identities are constructed in the schooling experiences of these Muslim youth. (Contains 11 notes.)
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