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Outsiders often expect Muslim women to be timid, conservative, or
submissive, the reality is different. While some of these authors
express a quiet piety and explore poignant situations, others use
black humour and biting satire, or play with possibilities. Still
others shade into the territory of a Muslim Fifty Shades of Grey,
creating grey areas where the mainstream media sees only black and
white. The stories also reflect on gender differences, lesbian
desire,and many other subjects.
Storying Relationships explores the sexual lives of young British
Muslims in their own words and through their own stories. It finds
engaging and surprising stories in a variety of settings: when
young people are chatting with their friends; conversing more
formally within families and communities; scribbling in their
diaries; and writing blogs, poems and books to share or publish.
These stories challenge stereotypes about Muslims, who are
frequently portrayed as unhappy in love and sexually different. The
young people who emerge in this book, contradicting racist and
Islamophobic stereotypes, are assertive and creative, finding and
making their own ways in matters of the body and the heart. Their
stories – about single life, meeting and dating, pressure and
expectations, sex, love, marriage and dreams – are at once
specific to the young British Muslims who tell them, and resonant
reflections of human experience.
Storying Relationships explores the sexual lives of young British
Muslims in their own words and through their own stories. It finds
engaging and surprising stories in a variety of settings: when
young people are chatting with their friends; conversing more
formally within families and communities; scribbling in their
diaries; and writing blogs, poems and books to share or publish.
These stories challenge stereotypes about Muslims, who are
frequently portrayed as unhappy in love and sexually different. The
young people who emerge in this book, contradicting racist and
Islamophobic stereotypes, are assertive and creative, finding and
making their own ways in matters of the body and the heart. Their
stories - about single life, meeting and dating, pressure and
expectations, sex, love, marriage and dreams - are at once specific
to the young British Muslims who tell them, and resonant
reflections of human experience.
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