Australian Muslim Women's Borderland Subjectivities

This book claims a discursive space in academic scholarship for knowledges and ways of knowing that capture the diversity, complexity and full humanness of Australian Muslim women's subjectivities. It draws on in-depth conversational interviews with 20 Australian Muslim women from various ethnic backgrounds during which the women shared their experiences of being at the crossroads of their religious, gendered, racialised and ethnic identities. The book puts forward a decolonial feminist border methodology by weaving the work of decolonial feminist philosophers Maria Lugones and Gloria Anzaldúa with postmodern feminist thinking on subjectivity and with discourse analysis. This methodology is used to centre and attend to the fluidity and plurality of Muslim women's subjectivities, at the intersections of race, ethnicity, patriarchy, gender, sexuality and Islam.

Draws on critical decolonial feminist theory to explore the power relations Coheres a range of disciplinary perspectives on identity, subjectivities, belonging, and place Challenges dominant patriarchal scripts of Muslim women, providing alternative narratives of women's social realities

Autorentext

Lütfiye Ali (PhD, BA (Hons.) VicMelb) is a Cypriot Turkish Muslim Australian scholar in the field of Community Psychology. Lutfiye's research areas include intercultural relations, racialized and gendered dynamics of oppression and resistance, identity, community making and belonging among migrant, second generation Australians and Australian Muslim women. Lutfiye works as a teaching academic in the field of social work and as a researcher at Moondani Balluk - Indigenous Academic Unit at Victoria University, Australia. Lutfiye is also a committee member (grant and project manager) of North Cyprus Turkish Community Centre in Victoria.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Historically Locating Muslim women: Australia and Coloniality of Power.- Chapter 3: Decolonial Feminism: Theorising Muslim Women's Subjectivity.- Chapter 4: Understanding of Islam and Being Muslim: Negotiating Diversity and Authenticity.- Chapter 5: The Good Girl: Negotiating Gendered Identity at the Intersections of Islam and Ethnicity.- Chapter 6: The Oppressed and Palatable Others: Intersections of Islam, Ethnicity, Race and Gender.- Chapter 7: Muslim Women's Borderlands Identities.