Policy Press

Veiled Threats

Representing the Muslim Woman in Public Policy Discourses

By Naaz Rashid

Published

May 31, 2016

Page count

224 pages

ISBN

978-1447325178

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

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Policy Press

Published

May 31, 2016

Page count

224 pages

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978-1447325192

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Policy Press

Published

May 31, 2016

Page count

224 pages

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978-1447325208

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Policy Press

Published

May 31, 2016

Page count

224 pages

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978-1447325185

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As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of the Muslim woman is situated within national debates about Britishness, the death of multiculturalism and global concerns over international terrorism.

Analysing the relevance of class, citizenship status, and regional differences, Veiled threats is a valuable addition to the burgeoning literature on Muslims in the UK post 9/11. It will be of interest to academics and students in public and social policy, race equality, gender, and faith-based policy.

Dr Naaz Rashid is currently a Teaching Fellow at the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex. She previously worked in central government and has held positions as a Research Associate in the Sociology Department at the University of Manchester and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she completed her PhD in 2013. She has also previously studied at Birkbeck College and SOAS at the University of London and at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include ‘race’, gender, religion, urban studies, and social policy. She has had her work published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, as well as in Open Democracy and The Guardian.

Prologue: Veiled threats?;

“Muslim women: your country needs you!” Gendering the UK’s ‘War on Terror’;

Gendered nationalisms: the ‘True’ Clash of Civilisations?;

Tales of the city: diversity in diversity, working between and within local differences;

Giving the silent majority a stronger voice?;

“As a mother and a Muslim”: maternalism and neoliberal empowerment;

A community of communities: privileging religion;

The Muslim Woman: victims of oppression or agents of change?;

Epilogue: some reflections on Prevent