Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy

Lisa K. Taylor is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Bishop's University.

This collection brings together scholars from education, literary and cultural studies, and Muslim women's studies to examine the politics and ethics of transnational anti-colonial reading practices and pedagogy. The book features interviews with Muslim women artists and cultural producers on the role of the arts as a form of critical public pedagogy.

Introduction: The Contested Imaginaries of Reading Muslim Women and Muslim Women Reading Back Jasmin Zine and Lisa K. Taylor Part I: Transnational Anti-Colonial Feminist Reading Practices 1. SUR/VEIL: The Veil as Blank(et) Signifier Megan MacDonald 2. Khamosh Pani: Reading Partition Muslim Masculinities and Femininities in an Age of Terror Shahnaz Khan 3. Breaking the Stigma? The Anti-Heroine in Fatih Akin's Head On Mine Eren 4. Pedagogies of Solidarity in Suheir Hammad's "First Writing Since" Dana M. Olwan Part II: The Politics of Production and Reception 5. "A Too-Quick Enthusiasm for the Other": North American Women's Book Clubs and the Politics of Reading Catherine Burwell 6. Of Activist Fandoms, Auteur Pedagogy and Imperial Feminism: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to "I am Du'a Khalil" Trish Salah Part III: Transformative Pedagogies 7. Cartographies of Difference and Pedagogies of Peril: Muslim Girls and Women in Western Young Adult Fiction Novels Jasmin Zine 8. "Shaking Up" Vision: The Video Diary as Personal and Pedagogical Intervention in Mona Hatoum's Measures of Distance Mehre Gomez Fonseca 9. From Empathy to Estrangement, From Enlightenment to Implication: A Pedagogical Framework for (Re)Reading Literary Desire Against the "Slow Acculturation of Imperialism" Lisa K. Taylor Part IV: Reflections on Cultural Production 10. Interview with Mohja Kahf Jasmin Zine 11. Interview with Zarqa Nawaz Jasmin Zine 12. Interview with Rasha Salti Rasha Salti and Lisa K. Taylor 13. Interview with Tayyibah Taylor Jasmin Zine 14. Interview with Sofia Baig Jasmin Zine 15. Interview with Sahar Ullah Jasmin Zine 16. Interview with Jamelie Hassan Lisa K. Taylor