A Feminography of Muslim Women’s Experiences in Greater Manchester: Locating Identity, Agency, and Resistance to the Triple-Bind oppression of Racism, Sexism, and Cultural Patriarchy

Rahman, Halima (2023) A Feminography of Muslim Women’s Experiences in Greater Manchester: Locating Identity, Agency, and Resistance to the Triple-Bind oppression of Racism, Sexism, and Cultural Patriarchy. PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.

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Abstract

Using the method of Critical ‘Feminography’, this research draws upon the 34 conversational interviews with British Muslim women from Greater Manchester, which will emphasise on Muslim women ‘talking’ about their everyday lived embodied experiences, and so Muslim women telling her-story about the various ways in which their identities as Muslim women is lived and negotiated. This research builds on feminist approaches via an interdisciplinary practice of engaged theory and by incorporating a contemporary Muslim feminist lens, to frame the embodied intersections of race, gender, and religion. This will conclude to the overall contributing argument of this research that Muslim women’s embodied experiences are situated within a ‘tripe-bind’ oppression of racism, sexism, and cultural patriarchy. In response to these pressures, I argue that there is a will to survive in which Muslim women navigate and negotiate the different gazes, spaces, and people they encounter. It is through acts of continuity and contestation, reconfiguration and reconciliation, reconstruction, and rejection that we can locate the complexity of visible Muslim female identity (i.e., flexibility of hijab) and the multifaceted ways in which agency is cultivated (performative beauty work) under the circumstances of the tripe-bind

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law and Social Justice
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	05 Feb 2024 09:57
Last Modified:	05 Feb 2024 09:57
Supervisors:	Frost, Diane Doebler, Stefanie
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3176819