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

When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter?โ€Engrossing… fascinating… courageousโ€ ObserverWhen writer Mariam Khan found herself increasingly frustrated with a national discourse that marginalized Muslim womenโ€™s voices, she decided it was time for something new. Why was she only hearing about Muslim women from other people? Why werenโ€™t Muslim women given the chance to speak for themselves?`Itโ€™s Not About the Burqa` is poised to change all that. Here are voices you wonโ€™t see represented in the headlines: seventeen Muslim women speaking frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of a disapproving community and a racist country. These essays are funny, warm, sometimes sad, and often angry, and each is a passionate declaration calling time on oppression, lazy stereotyping, misogyny and Islamophobia.What does it mean, exactly, to be a Muslim woman in the West today? According to the media, itโ€™s all about the burqa.Hereโ€™s what itโ€™s really about.

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