South Asian American stories of self : the dis/united states of Muslim womanhood / / Tasneem Mandviwala

• Autore: Mandviwala Tasneem
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.486971
• Soggetto topico: Muslim women - Social conditions; Muslim teenagers - Conduct of life
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Author's Note -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Hello, My Name Is -- Answering Unasked Questions -- Grounding the Second-Generation Female Muslim Experience: An Interplay of Culture, Ecology, and Feminism -- Interviews: The Whys, Hows, and Whens -- Conceptualizing Stage-Specific Research -- Overview of Research Approach -- Participants: Ethnicity and Recruitment -- Creating the Interview Guide and Questionnaire -- Questions of Reliability -- The Path Forward -- References -- Chapter 2: The Ups, Downs, and Whatevers of Adolescence -- Part 1: Developmental Risks and Challenges -- Divided Lives, Divided Selves?: "I lead a double life" -- "Muslim!": International-Political Stereotypes -- Micro/Aggressions: Manifestations of the International-Political Stereotype -- The Constantly Questionable: Muslim Womanhood Stereotypes -- Original Origins: "Where are you really from?" -- The Home Front: "I dunno, it's pretty normal" -- Masjid: "It's like really real" -- Boys and Reputation -- Best Frenemies -- Part 2: Protective Factors and Coping Mechanisms -- The Art of Whatevering: Navigating on One's Own -- Sameness of "Things and Stuff:" Like Peers and Social Support from Within -- Little Miss Smarty Hijab: Why Smartness Is Important -- Part 3: Adolescent Outcomes -- Emergent Identities: Becoming What She Will Be -- The (Muslim) Girl Next Door -- The Cusp Moment -- References -- Chapter 3: Being While Becoming: Emerging Adulthood -- Part 1: Marriage -- I Do (It All!): American Islamic Marriage Versus American Marriage -- Reasons to Marry: Public Acceptance and Private Freedom -- Part 2: Education -- From Protective Factor to Risk -- Graduate Education: Issues of Marriage, Marginalization, and Mental Health -- Creating New Methods of Coping for Higher Education -- Excelling at the Cost of Romantic Partnership and Community Support. ; Location, Location, Location -- Part 3: Individual Experiences Through Stages -- From Adolescent to Emerging Adult: Three Case studies -- Career: Or Not -- Part 4: Resolution of Adolescent Risks -- Taking Back Power Through Intentional Giving: The Reduced Risk of Questions and Divided Life Spaces -- Islamophobia and the Muslim Womanhood Stereotype -- Hijab -- Sexual Harassment: Where Islamophobia and Patriarchies Meet Halfway -- Trumping Trump: Complications of Non-Muslim Allyship -- Part 5: Risks of Unconventional Life Paths -- The Misfits: An Unwelcome Extended Adolescence -- Part 6: Coping Mechanisms -- Help: Turning to Established Coping Mechanisms as a Coping Mechanism -- Therapy -- AMEA Women-Driven Support Groups -- Just Get on with It: Goal-Oriented Focus as a Coping Mechanism -- Part 7: Emerging Adulthood Outcomes -- The (Sort of, Kind of) All-American Woman -- Settling into Selfhood: From Becoming to Being -- References -- Chapter 4: Adulthood: The Final Chapter? -- A Struggle with the Juggle: Motherhood Versus Career -- Un-mosqued: Motherhood Versus Masjid -- The Risk of Isolation and Loss of Tradition -- Third Spaces: A Mindfully Constructed Coping Mechanism -- Islamophobia and Muslim Womanhood: Then and Now -- A Retrospective: Where Were You When 9/11 Happened? -- Experiencing the Trump Era as an Adult -- It'll All Be Okay in the End: Resolutions of the Risks of Education and/or Marriage -- A Loosening of Ties: Religion Versus Spirituality -- References -- Chapter 5: Looking Back to Look Forward -- Unanswered Questions -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: South Asian American Stories of Self
• ISBN: 9783031158353; 9783031158346
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910616382603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Muslims in global societies series.