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BOOK LAUNCH<br>
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'Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and
Religion'<br>
Editors: Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho<br>
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To be launched by The Hon Dr Meredith Burgmann, City of Sydney
Councillor<br>
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6 for 630pm, Wednesday 8 April<br>
Upstairs at The Loft (CB09), University of Technology Sydney<br>
entry via Broadway, Ultimo<br>
Map: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/bway.html">http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/bway.html</a><br>
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DETAILS:<br>
<p><b>Beyond the Hijab Debates: New Conversations on Gender, Race and
Religion</b><br>
Editors: Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho<br>
Date Of Publication: Feb 2009<br>
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-0169-0<br>
Isbn: 1-4438-0169-0</p>
<p>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?”. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
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Dr Tanja Dreher
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tanja.dreher@uts.edu.au">tanja.dreher@uts.edu.au</a>
Phone: (02) 9514 1671
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