List of Tables
List of Figures and Captions
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Single
Chapter 2: Meeting
Interlude 1: Coming to Terms
Chapter 3: Dating
Chapter 4: Love
Interlude 2: Speaking to Stereotypes
Chapter 5: Pressure
Chapter 6: Married
Interlude 3: (Not So) Different
Chapter 7: Sex
Chapter 8: Dreaming
Conclusion
Guide to Literary Sources
Bibliography
Explores the sexual lives of young British Muslims through their own words and stories
Richard Phillips is Professor of Human Geography at the
University of Sheffield, UK. His books include Mapping Men and
Empire: A Geography of Adventure (1996); Decentring Sexualities:
Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis (2000); Sex,
Politics and Empire: A Postcolonial Geography (2006); and Muslim
Spaces of Hope (2009, Zed Books).
Claire Chambers is a Senior Lecturer in Global Literature at
the University of York. She is the author of Britain Through Muslim
Eyes (2015), British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary
Writers (2011), and Rivers of Ink: Selected Essays (2017). She is a
regular columnist for Dawn, the longest-running broadsheet
newspaper in Pakistan.
Nafhesa Ali is a Research Associate at the University of
Sheffield, UK. Her doctorate focused upon the experiences of ageing
among British Asians in northern England, a subject on which she
has published articles in journals of Sociology.
Indrani Karmakar is Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at
the Department of Literary Studies in English in Rhodes University,
South Africa. She completed her PhD from the University of York,
UK. In her fellowship, she is expanding and reworking her doctoral
thesis on Indian women writers' depictions of motherhood into a
monograph. Her research interests include postcolonial literature,
South Asian literature, feminist theories, motherhood, women's
writing, and diasporic literature. She is Social Media Editor for
the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
Kristina Diprose is a Senior Research Fellow within the Born
in Bradford team at the Bradford Institute for Health Research. She
completed her PhD in human geography at the University of Leeds in
2015, then worked on several research projects at the University of
Sheffield: Intergenerational Justice, Consumption and
Sustainability in Comparative Perspective, Localising the
Sustainable Development Goals, and Storying Relationships. She has
also worked in research and evaluation for The Young Foundation and
national Citizens Advice. Her research interests include childhood,
youth, and intergenerational research, co-production, and
sustainability through an environmental justice lens.
“This is a groundbreaking book and its subject matter long overdue
for discussion. It brings the story of the Muslims of Britain
up-to-date. Only when we know what goes on behind closed doors and
in the hearts of the young can we hope to understand the community.
The authors have gathered the material with wisdom, sincerity, and
scholarship. It is a must-read for Muslims and non-Muslims
alike.”
*Akbar Ahmed, American University, USA*
'Storying Relationships is an excellent response to the
pigeonholing of diasporic Muslims as flat, restricted
characters—the exploitative or oppressive man and the subjugated
woman with no choice and agency. The authors of this groundbreaking
study not only counter that assumption by showing a range of Muslim
lifestyles, sexualities and subjectivities—straight, gay, bisexual,
bi-curious—giving them a platform, but also capture the humor in
their stories of self-discovery, from matchmaking disasters to
halal dating anxieties. The diverse perspectives offer
heart-warming experiences as young adult Muslims break their
silence about taboos, and brazenly embrace new possibilities while
holding on to cherished traditions.'
*Esra Mirze Santesso, University of Georgia, USA*
This illuminating volume sparkles with the fictional words and real
voices of young British Muslims talking and writing about love,
religion, relationships and the realities of married life and in
doing so, ‘speak to stereotypes’ about tradition and taboo topics
with a degree of frankness that may surprise many people.
*Sadek Hamid is editor of "Young British Muslims: Between Rhetoric
and Realities" and co-author of "British Muslims: New Directions in
Islamic Thought, Creativity and Activism"*
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