Veiled threat : on being visibly Muslim in Britain /
Asbali, Nadeine
Veiled threat : on being visibly Muslim in Britain / Nadeine Asbali - 275 pages ; 23 cm.
Nadeine Asbali would be the first to say that a scarf on a woman's head doesn't define her, but in her case, that's a lie.Nadeine's life changed overnight. As a mixed-race teenager, she had unknowingly been passing as white her entire life: until she decided to wear the hijab. Then, in an instant, she went from being an unassuming white(ish) child to something sinister and threatening, perverse and foreign.Veiled Threat is a sharp and illuminating examination of what it is to be a visibly Muslim woman in modern Britain, a nation intent on forced assimilation and integration and one that views covered bodies as primitive and dangerous.
9781785908194
Women and religion.
Islam.
305.486970941 ASB
Veiled threat : on being visibly Muslim in Britain / Nadeine Asbali - 275 pages ; 23 cm.
Nadeine Asbali would be the first to say that a scarf on a woman's head doesn't define her, but in her case, that's a lie.Nadeine's life changed overnight. As a mixed-race teenager, she had unknowingly been passing as white her entire life: until she decided to wear the hijab. Then, in an instant, she went from being an unassuming white(ish) child to something sinister and threatening, perverse and foreign.Veiled Threat is a sharp and illuminating examination of what it is to be a visibly Muslim woman in modern Britain, a nation intent on forced assimilation and integration and one that views covered bodies as primitive and dangerous.
9781785908194
Women and religion.
Islam.
305.486970941 ASB