Australian Muslim Women’s Borderland Subjectivities: Diverse Identities, Diverse Experiences

Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: An Ontological and Epistemic Journey
	Australian Muslim Women in Public and Academic Scripts
	Researching Close to Home and Finding Voice: An Ontological and Epistemic Journey
		Postmodern Feminism: Decentralising the Subject
		Islamic Feminism: Anti-Colonial and Anti-Patriarchy Approach Within an Islamic Framework
		Intersectional and Decolonial Feminisms: Theories from the Flesh
	Australian Muslim Women: A Theory in the Flesh
	Muslim Women: Who Are They? Who Are We?
	Book Contributions and Overview
	Notes
	References
2 Historically Locating Muslim Women: Race, Gender and Coloniality in Australia
	Colonialism, Race, Gender and Nation Building in Australia
	Coloniality of Multiculturalism in Contemporary Australia
		Indigenous Australians and Multiculturalism
		Celebrating Cultural Diversity: Constructing the Ethnic Other
		Multiculturalism and Feminism and Coloniality of Gender
	Islam and Australian Muslims: History and Re-Emergence of Colonial Discourses of the Orient
		Coloniality of Gender and Imageries of Australian Muslims
	Summary
	Notes
	References
3 Decolonial Feminist Border Methodology: Researching Muslim Women’s Subjectivities
	The Women of the Study
	The Interviews
	Curation of a Decolonial Feminist Border Methodology
		Theorising the Lives of Others: Feminist Visions of Plural Subjectivities
		Analysing the Lives of Others: Doing Discursive Analysis in Light of Borderlands Theory
		Entering the Worlds of Others: World Travelling, Epistemic Location, Solidarity and Notes on Creativity
	The Analysis of the Women’s Subjectivities
	Notes
	References
4 The Others: On Being Australian at the Intersections of Islam, Ethnicity, Race and Gender
	Discourses of Identity
		Looking Muslim
		Oppressed Muslim Woman
	Discourses of Difference
		The Unassimilable Others
		The Moderate Others
		The Ethnic Others
	‘I am Australian with a Difference’: Constructing Australianness from the Borderlands
	Summary
	Notes
	References
5 ‘The Hanim’: Identity, Community Making and the Gendered Borders of Australian Muslim Communities
	The Hanim and Gendered Discourses of Community Identity and Borders
		‘We Are Different’: Hanim and Borders of Sexual Morality Between ‘Us’ (Traditional) and ‘Them’ (Secular)
		‘Holding on’: Identity Making and Resistance to Assimilation
		‘Protection/Mission to Control’: Honour and Amplified (Hard) Masculinities
		‘Reputation Above Everything’: Shaming, Collective (Community) Morality and Belonging
	Marriage: A Strategy of Resistance?
	Summary
	Notes
	References
6 Australian Muslim Women and Understandings of Islam, Being Muslim and the Veil
	Discourses of Being Muslim and of Islam
		Discourse of Performing Islam: ‘You Must Practice and Be Good’
		Discourse of Being Culturally Muslim: ‘We Weren’t Really Religious’
		Discourse of Being Human: ‘Islam Is About Being Human’
		Discourse of Feeling Muslim: ‘I Think and Feel Muslim’
		Discourse of Muslim as an Ascribed Identity: ‘I am Muslim by Name’
	Summary
	Discourses of the Veil
		Discourse of Fitne: Dangerous Feminine Energy
		Discourse of Modesty: Protection, Respect and Responsibility
		Discourse of Choice: Signification, Submission and Salvation
		Discourse of Unimportance: The Veil Is Not Symbolic of Being Muslim
		Discourse of Liberation: De-gendering/De-sexualising Bodies
		Discourse of Racism: Un/veiling as an Act of Resistance
		Discourse of Force: Gendering Borders of Identity and Resistance
		Discourse of Preparedness: ‘Just Not the Time’
	Summary
	Notes
	References
7 Muslim Women’s Border Subjectivities and Decolonial Feminism and Feminist Futures
	Muslim Women’s Border Subjectivities
	Decolonial Feminism and Decolonial Feminist Futures
		Methodological Contributions to Decolonial Feminism
		Theoretical Implications for Decolonial Feminism
		Border Subjectivities, Solidary across Differences and Decolonial Feminist Futures
	Returning to the Beginnings
	Decolonial Border Feminism and Feminist Subjectivity: A Theory/Manifesto in the Flesh
	Notes
	References
Appendix
Demographic Stories of the Australian Muslim Women
Index