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The Muslim mum is the most fertile political symbol of our times – heralded as both the solution and cause to many of the issues that erroneously come to define Muslim communities in our now globalised world. Muslim mums who are continuously spoken down to, at, or for, and very rarely conversed with in a language that sees and understands us beneath the suffocating extraneous layers of media sensationalism and political discourse.
In the first of its kind, The Muslim (M)other looks at the blessed and fraught experience of mothering when Muslim in contemporary political times. Amidst the textures of an accelerating digital age, ubiquitous Islamophobia and an increasingly commercialised cultural climate that impacts us in ways obvious and untold.
Preface
Chapter 1. The Personal: Motherhood and The Self
Mothering in the self
The B word
Beauty and the Muslim
Breaking whose stereotype?
The paradox of motherhood and rediscovering yourself
Realigning
Truth and beauty
Crossing and consolidating the ultimate borders
Chapter 2. The Digital: Mothering in the Socials
The global village
Socially not-working
Mirror, mirror on the wall…
Mothering in the many and everyday
Motherhood as the opposite of our social media world
Navigating the new tribe
Chapter 3. The Political: The Muslim (M)Other
Once upon a time…
The Muslim as Monster
Human rights, Muslims wrong
The visual standard of being Muslim
The paradox of punishing Muslims for agency
How the Muslim Mother is framed
How we perceive ourselves as Muslim Mothers
How we parent as Muslim other
Living beyond binaries
Chapter 4. The Cultural: PropaGender and Culturing the Muslim Mother
Not MINCing words
Our own internal algorithm
Girl power?
Old misogyny in Muslim cultures
Out of the Matrix…
…into the fire
Introducing the TradWife
Meet the Muslimah Boss
And end to duality
A possible solution?