Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure
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- Synopsis
- Winner of the 2021 International Book Awards Winner of American Book Fest's 2020 Best Book Awards in Women’s IssuesA full-color illustrated collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity, and strength of Muslim women both past and present.Tired of seeing Muslim women portrayed as weak, sheltered, and limited, journalist Seema Yasmin reframes how the world sees them, to reveal everything they CAN do and the incredible, stereotype-shattering ways they are doing it.Featuring 40 full-color illustrations by illustrator Fahmida Azim throughout, Muslim Women Are Everything is a celebration of the ways in which past and present Muslim women from around the world are singing, dancing, reading, writing, laughing, experimenting, driving, and rocking their way into the history books.Forget subservient, oppressed damsels—say hello to women who are breaking down barriers using their art, their voices, and their activism, including:Tesnim Sayar from Denmark, a Muslim goth-punk who wears a red tartan mohawk on top of her hijabAmerican superstar singer SZANura Afia, CoverGirl’s first hijabi ambassadorIlhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, America’s first Muslim congresswomenIlyana Insyirah, a hijaab-wearing scuba-diving midwife from AustraliaShowcasing women who defy categorization, Muslim Women Are Everything proves that to be Muslim and a woman is to be many things: strong, vulnerable, trans, disabled, funny, entrepreneurial, burqa or bikini clad, and so much more.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 192 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780062947048
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780062947031
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins
- Date of Addition:
- 12/16/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Seema Yasmin, Fahmida Azim
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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