Shelina Kassam to instruct Gender and Islam course at University of Toronto

Gender and Islam
Instructors: Shelina Kassam
The course explores historical and contemporary debates regarding the construction of gender in Islam. It examines historic and literary representations, ethnographic narratives, legal and human rights discourses, the politics of veiling, and Islamic feminism. This course situates Muslim women as complex, multidimensional actors engaged in knowledge production and political and feminist struggles, as opposed to the static, victim-centered, Orientalist images that have regained currency in the representation of Muslim women in the post 9/11 era.

Shelina Kassam: (M.A. McGill University, Islamic Studies, PhD Candidate, OISE-UT) Specialization: race, representation, media and Muslims, identity-formation for Muslims in the post 9/11 world, post-colonial studies, and popular culture.

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