Price: $34.95
Page Count: 297
Publication Date: June 2016
ISBN: 978-1-77258-021-1
“This anthology is a much needed and timely intervention into a widely Islamophobic public imaginary in which Muslim women in general and Muslim mothers in particular are stereotypically understood in the cultural mainstream as victims of religious oppression or villainous terror conspirators. The contributions in this book critically unpack the nuances of the complex agencies of Muslim mothers in an international diaspora of many Muslim communities. The text is academically rigorous, emotionally touching, intellectually challenging, and important as a window into representations and the lived realities of Muslim mothers in a variety of contexts around the world.”
—Rebecca Bromwich, lawyer and faculty member, Carleton University Department of Law and Legal Studies
“ This is a very interesting and timely book. What I like best about this book are the case studies and accounts of women’s agency through Muslim mothering. Their voices are loud and clear through the claiming of their religion and their commitment to good mothering on their terms. The diversity of the case studies covers a wide range of mothering experiences from conflicts to day-to-day lives across a wide range of cultures.”
—Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, San Diego
State University
Muslim Mothering: Local and Global Histories,
Theories, and Practices
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction:
Muslim Mothering: Between Sacred Texts
and Contemporary Practices
Margaret Aziza Pappano and Dana M. Olwan
I: Muslim Mothering Amid War and Violence
Empowered Muslim Mothering:
Navigating War, Border-Crossing, and Activism
in El-Haddad’s Gaza Mom
Nadine Sinno
“God as My Witness”:
Mothering and Militarization in Kashmir
Nouf Bazaz
Mourning Mothers in Iran:
Narratives and Counter-Narratives of
Grievability and Martyrdom
Rachel Fox
II: Remaking Kinship:
Muslim Single Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and Co-Mothers
Constructing Counter-Narratives of the “Good”
Muslim Mother in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Audrey Mouser Elegbede
Between Blood and Milk, East and West:
Muslim Adoptive Mothering in a Transnational Context
Margaret Aziza Pappano
“Sister Mothers”:
Turkish American Muslim Mothers’ and
Grandmothers’ Networks in Diaspora
Maria F. Curtis
III: Muslim Mothering in the Diaspora
Muslim, Immigrant, and Francophone in Ontario:
A Triple Minoritization or How to See Mothering
as an Integrative Process
Aurélie Lacassagne
Managing the Family, Combatting Violence:
Faith as Resource and Promise of the Good Life in Case Studies
of Migrant Muslim Mothers in Germany
Ulrike Lingen-Ali
A Poetic Inquiry:
Muslim Mothering and Islamophobia
Mehra Shirazi
IV: Reproduction and Maternity in Muslim Societies
Social and Religious Constructions of
Motherhood in Indonesia: Negotiating Expectations
of Childbearing, Family Size, and Governmental Policies
Nina Nurmila
Confinement Practices of Young Malay Muslim Mothers
Fatimah Al-Attas
The Impact of Maternity Beliefs on
Reproductive Health in Muslim Societies
Nazila Isgandarova
V: Muslim Mothering as Academic Inquiry
Theoretical Constructions of Muslim Motherhood
Irene Oh
About the Contributors
M. Aziza Pappano is an Associate Professor of English at Queen’s University.
Dana M. Olwan is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Syracuse University.
