Young Muslim Women and the Islamic Family: Reflections on Conflicting Ideals in British Bangladeshi Life
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posted on 2023-05-22, 13:38authored byRozario, S, Samuel, G
ln this chapter we will be examining attitudes to marriage mnong young British Bangladeshi women. We see the move to new forms of Muslim piety among these women as related in part to the problems posed by marriage in the contempo-· rary British environment. New Islamic groups provide both social and int.ellectual resources that may help to resolve difficulties and issues in relation to marriage and the family, including tension between Western models of romantic love and marriage and the desire to behave in a proper Islamic way. At the same time, the specific forms of islamic practice adopted may also be constitutive of a new sense of self and a new identity which carries along with. it a new and different sense of what the marital relationship, the woman's relationship to her own body and self and her relationship to her present or future children might be.
History
Publication title
Women in Islam: Reflections on Historical and Contemporary Research
Editors
T Lovat
Pagination
25-42
ISBN
978-94-007-4218-5
Department/School
School of Social Sciences
Publisher
Springer
Place of publication
New York
Extent
15
Rights statement
Copyright 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Repository Status
Restricted
Socio-economic Objectives
Other culture and society not elsewhere classified