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Not Too “College‐Like,” Not Too Normal: American Muslim Undergraduate Women's Gendered Discourses
Author(s) -
Mir Shabana
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2009.01043.x
Subject(s) - gender studies , ethnography , sociology , construct (python library) , human sexuality , resistance (ecology) , higher education , anthropology , political science , ecology , computer science , law , biology , programming language
Building on an ethnographic study of American Muslim undergraduate women at two universities in Washington, D.C., I examine undergraduate Muslim women's construction of gendered discourses. Stereotypes feed into both majority and minority constructions of Muslim women's gendered identities. I highlight Muslim women's resistance to and adoption of such stereotypes as they construct various modalities of interaction with men on campus. [higher education, gender, Muslim women, ethnography, sexuality]