Hijabistas, mosques and force Muslim women's search for self in Britain
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Humphries, Christina L.
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Siegel, Scott N.
Shore, Zachary
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2011-03
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Great Britain has struggled with how to treat its Muslim population since the terrorist attacks in 2005. Prime Minister David Cameron believes that British multiculturalism is not working, and the country needs to move to a more integrative approach for its diverse population. Muslim women in Britain, however, have already integrated. They have taken on British values of social and gender equality as their own. They seek to practice their religion as freely as men. They participate in the British market, and they demand the same rights as all other British citizens. They have found a hybrid identity that blends these values with Islam and have found a new, Western sense of self. These women prove that identity compromise and integration are possible in multicultural Britain.
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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xiv, 95 p.PAGES : ill. (some color) ;
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