Muslim women and White femininity: reenactment and resistance

ABSTRACT

Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra’s book, Muslim Women and White Femininity: Reenactment and Resistance, serves to interrogate the internal performative tensions Muslim feminists must navigate in their pursuit of advancing women’s rights in the Muslim world. Through reflexive personal narratives and archetypical criticism, Ghabra argues that these performances sway between reinscribing, replicating, and resisting White femininity. Ghabra’s book initiates a Muslim-centric model for a much-needed conversation about how Whiteness and other systems of privilege have global implications and are not bound by national borders.

KEYWORDS:

• Whiteness
• Muslim-centric
• intersectional feminist ethic
• archetypical criticism