It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race by Mariam Khan

It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience.

In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the 'traditional submissiveness' of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female?

Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women's voices are still pushed to the fringes - the figures leading the discussion are white and male.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador; Main Market edition (6 Feb. 2020)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509886427

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509886425

Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.95 x 1.65 x 19.56 cm