7. Evaluate the challenges and opportunities experienced by British Muslim women in contemporary society. 2000 Words Essay

Please have an introduction and conclusion if need be and use the readings and outer knowledge provided. Please give a turn it in report after you are done.

Contemporary meaning modern day era in THE UK.

80+ (First Class)
A mark of 80+ will fulfil the following criteria:
• shows clear evidence of wide and relevant reading and an engagement with the conceptual
issues
• develops a sophisticated and intelligent argument
• shows a rigorous use and a confident understanding of relevant source materials
• achieves an appropriate balance between factual detail and key theoretical issues
• provides evidence of original thinking

Readings you can look into 

7.    
Evaluate the challenges and opportunities
experienced by British Muslim women in contemporary society.

 

 

Ahmed,
Fauzia (2014) ‘British Muslims’ relationship crisis’, Public Spirit, available
at: http://www.publicspirit.org.uk/british-muslims-relationship-crisis/

Bi, S. (2019) ‘More than Multiple
Jeapodary: Navigating the Legal System as a Muslim-Woman-Litigant-in-Person’. Journal
of Muslims in Europe, Vol.8, pp. 247-264*

Bi, S. (2020a) ‘Empowered Employment:
Unlocking the Workplace for Muslim Women’. Equality
Act Review. *

Bowen, John R. (2016) On British Islam: Religion, Law and Everyday
Practice in Shari’a Councils. Oxford: Princeton University Press. [Available
online at https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10239475] *

 

Bunglawala, Zamila (2008)
Valuing Family, Valuing Work: British Muslim Women and the Labour Market.
London: The Young Foundation
https://youngfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Valuing-Family-Valuing-Work-British-Muslim-Women-and-the-Labour-Market-October-2008.pdf
*

 

Burlet, Stacey & Reid,
Helen (1998) ‘A gendered uprising: political representation and minority ethnic
communities’, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 21, 2, March: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/014198798330016?needAccess=true

 

Contractor, Sariya
(2012) Muslim Women in Britain: De-Mystifying the Muslimah, Abingdon:
Routledge, pp.81-93: https://contentstore.cla.co.uk/secure/link?id=758796c2-760d-e711-80c9-005056af4099 * 

 

Dwyer,
C. and Shah, B. (2009) ‘Rethinking the identities of young British Pakistani
Muslim women: Educational experiences and aspirations’ in Muslims in Britain:
Race, Place and Identities ed. by Peter Hopkins and Richard Gale, Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, pp.55-73

 

El-Solh, C. (1993) ‘Be True
to Your Culture: Gender Tensions among Somali Muslims in Britain’, Immigrants
and Minorities 12:1, pp. 21-46: https://contentstore.cla.co.uk/secure/link?id=437c13a8-fafc-e611-80c9-005056af4099

 

Gilliat-Ray, Sophie
(2010) Muslims in Britain: An introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp.206-233 * 

 

Gohir, Shaista (2016) Information and
Guidance on Muslim Marriage and Divorce in Britain. Muslim Women’s Network UK.
http://www.mwnuk.co.uk/resourcesDetail.php?id=156 *

 

Inge, A. (2014) ‘The draw of
certainty: Salafism and young women in London’ in The Middle East in London,
London: SOAS, pp. 11-12: https://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/meil/recent-issues/file106209.pdf

 

Inge, A. (2015) ‘In search of
‘Pure’ Islam: Conversion to Salafism Among Young Women in London’ in Muslims
in the UK and Europe I, Suleiman, Y. (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pp.  119-129: http://www.academia.edu/12662900/In_Search_of_Pure_Islam_Conversion_to_Salafism_among_Young_Women_in_London

 

Inge, A. (2017) The Making of
a Salafi Muslim Woman: Path to Conversion, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
esp. chp. 3 (‘Becoming Salafi’). [Available online via SOAS Library Catalogue] * 

 

Jawad, Haifaa & Benn,
Tansin eds (2003) Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and Beyond,
Leiden, Boston: Brill

 

Jawad, Haifaa (2003)
‘Historical and contemporary perspectives of Muslim women living in the West’
in Jawad, H. and Benn, T., Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and
Beyond: Experiences and Images, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp.1-15: https://contentstore.cla.co.uk/secure/link?id=f5c37559-e0fc-e611-80c9-005056af4099 *

 

Jammohamed,
Shelina (2016) Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World. London: I.B.
Tauris, esp. chp 8 (‘Waging beauty: Visual identity in an age of stereotypes’)
and chp 12 (‘ ‘Forgot to be oppressed, too busy being awesome’: Generation M at
the forefront of faith and modernity’) [available online at Dawson Era via the
SOAS Library catalogue] *

 

Liberatore,
Giulia (2017) Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain. London:
Bloomsbury, pp. 77-106 (‘Tuition centres and Somali mosques: Raising good
daughters in London’). [Available as ebook via SOAS Library]

 

Navarro, Laura (2010) ‘Islamophobia and
Sexism: Muslim Women in the Western Mass Media’, Human Architecture
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge,8:2, pp. 95-114: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1385&context=humanarchitecture *

 

Okin,
Susan Moller (1999) ‘Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?’ and ‘Reply’ in Cohen,
Joshua et al (eds.) Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Susan Moller Okin with
Respondents. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 7-24 and 115-32.
7-26. [Available online at Dawson Era via https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10241128
].*

 

Pearson,
Allison (2006) ‘Here’s why the veil offends me’, Daily Mail [online] available
at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-409749/Heres-veil-offends-me.html

 

Tarlo, Emma (2010) Visibly
Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith, Oxford, New York: Berg * 

 

Suleiman, Yasir (2013) Narratives of Conversion to Islam in
Britain: Female Perspectives. Cambridge: Centre of Islamic Studies http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/narratives_of_conversion_report.pdf
*

 

Suleiman, Yasir (2016) Narratives of Conversion to Islam in
Britain: Male Perspectives. Cambridge: Centre of Islamic Studies http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Narratives-of-Conversion-Report-1.pdf
*

 

van Nieuwkerk, K. (2006),
‘Gender, Conversion and Islam: A comparison of Online and Offline Conversion
Narratives’, in Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the
West, van Nieuwkerk, K. (ed.), Austin : University of Texas Press, pp.
95-119: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/soas-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3443314 *

 

van Nieuwkerk, K. (ed.)
(2006) Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West,
Austin: University of Texas Press [Available as ebook via SOAS Library] *

 

Walker,
Tanya (2017) Shari’a Councils and Muslim Women in Britain: Rethinking the Role
of Power and Authority. Leiden: Brill, pp. 44-56 and 110-22. [Available online
at https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10214326]  *

 

Women and Equalities
Committee (2016) Employment Opportunities for Muslims in the UK. HC 89. London:
HMSO. a) Committee report and recommendations b) the oral and written evidence
c) the government’s response report https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/women-and-equalities-committee/inquiries/parliament-2015/inquiry/
*

 

Zempi,
I. and Chakraborti, N. (2014) Islamophobia, Victimisation and the Veil,
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan [Available online via SOAS Library Catalogue] *