Veiled Threat
eBook - ePub

Veiled Threat

On being visibly Muslim in Britain

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Veiled Threat

On being visibly Muslim in Britain

About this book

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. From being bombarded by racist stereotypes to being subjected to structural inequalities on every level, Nadeine asks why Muslim women are forced to contend with the twin oppressions of state-sanctioned Islamophobia and the unrelenting misogyny that fuels our world, all whilst being told by white feminists that they need saving.

Combining a passionate argument with personal experience, Veiled Threat is an indictment of a divided Britain that dominates and systematically others Muslim women at every opportunity.

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Table of contents

  1. Praise
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: Turkey Twizzlers and couscous on Sundays
  8. Chapter 2: Blood, bone and chiffon
  9. Chapter 3: Central reservations
  10. Chapter 4: Sinister saviours
  11. Chapter 5: Letter boxes
  12. Chapter 6: Invisible
  13. Chapter 7: Muslim masculinity
  14. Chapter 8: A nation within a nation
  15. Chapter 9: Bottom of the class
  16. Chapter 10: Salaams and smiles
  17. Conclusion
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Copyright