[csaa-forum] Book Launch: 'Beyond the Hijab Debates'

[Tanja Dreher]

BOOK LAUNCH

'Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and Religion'
Editors: Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho

To be launched by The Hon Dr Meredith Burgmann, City of Sydney Councillor

6 for 630pm, Wednesday 8 April
Upstairs at The Loft (CB09), University of Technology Sydney
entry via Broadway, Ultimo
Map: http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/bway.html

DETAILS:

*Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and Religion*
Editors: Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho
Date Of Publication: Feb 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-0169-0
Isbn: 1-4438-0169-0

Headscarves in schools. Ethnic gang rapists. Domestic violence in 
Indigenous communities. Polygamy. Sharia law. It seems that in public 
debates around the world, concerns about marginalised communities often 
revolve around issues of gender and women's rights. Yet all too often, 
discussions about complex matters are reduced to simplistic debates such 
as "hijab: to ban or not to ban?" or "Muslim women: oppressed or 
liberated?".

This collection provides a space for in-depth analyses on the politics 
of gender, race and religion. As well as critical reflections on images 
and experiences of Muslim women, chapters also explore the relationships 
between gender, violence and protection, and offer innovative 
possibilities for intellectual and practical understandings at the 
intersection of gender, race and religion.

Essential reading for scholars and students of gender and women's 
studies, cultural studies, racial and ethnic studies, religious studies 
and an educated public interested in understanding the challenges and 
possibilities of tackling both racism and the oppression of women.

Tanja Dreher is ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Transforming Cultures 
Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney and researches 
media and multiculturalism with a particular interest in changing 
journalism cultures, whiteness and gender. Her current project explores 
the productive possibilities of a politics of 'listening' to address 
some of the dilemmas of the more conventional politics of voice and 
representation.

Christina Ho is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social 
Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney. She researches 
migration, cultural diversity and gender. Her current projects examine 
sanctuary and security in Muslim women's lives, cultural citizenship in 
Western Sydney, and models of community relations projects in Australia.

"Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho have intelligently and sensitively opened 
up a space for a number of authors who call on readers to develop a 
complex, but at the same time, simply human, appreciation of the 
intricate negotiations that Muslim women have to engage in to preserve 
the viability of their lives in a terrain rife with contradictions" -- 
Ghassan Hage, author of White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a 
Multicultural Society and Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for 
Hope in a Shrinking Society.

-- 
Dr Tanja Dreher
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
Email: tanja.dreher at uts.edu.au
Phone: (02) 9514 1671



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