Katherine Bullock
Biographic Data
| ID | 4104960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Bullock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Bullock |
| SIGNATURE | BULLOCK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Your Face
Bakht’s previous work has shown deep insight into the topic of niqab in the West, with strong messages supporting the right of Muslim women to wear niqab and be included as full citizens in Western liberal democracies, while criticizing the numerous assumptions and objections that lead to niqab bans. I was eager to read her new book, In Your Face: Law, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada
Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love by David L. Johnston
Johnston, who spent over a decade as an evangelical clergyman in Algeria and a teacher in Egypt and the West Bank, hopes his book, Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love, will help reinforce the cooperative spirit between nations that seems to be diminishing in the contemporary world.Initially misled by the title, I was expecting the book to be a qualitative study based on interviews with Muslims and Christians debating justice and love. …
Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear
Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 35(3), pp. 582–583
Islamic Perspectives on Basic Income
The aim of this research is to present the Islamic perspective on the concept of Basic Income, and examine its emergence with the first Islamic society established at the time of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh). The scope of this research is to provide a historical account of Islamic society’s and Qur’anic foundations of social justice, provide Islamic definitions of the concepts involved in the Basic Income debate (such as wealth, poverty, and work), an…
Pious Fashion
This book is a very welcome addition to the literature on Muslim women’s dress. It is part of a growing trend to treat Muslim women and their sarto- rial choices through sophisticated theories that recognise the agency, even humanity, of Muslim women. We are far from the days when an Ameri- can author would simply read a headscarf as a symbol of oppression, and Muslim women in need of rescue—at least in the academic realm, though certainly not in…
Orientalism on Television
This article examines Orientalism in the 1960s American sitcom I Dream of Jeannie . I argue that Orientalism, as defined by Edward Said, is at the core of this show. I Dream of Jeannie is unique in that it transferred existing Orientalist representations from cinema to television. I argue that Orientalism performs two functions in I Dream of Jeannie : (1) imagining Jeannie as an “Other” and (2) being a vehicle for comedy. I note that the show is …
The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth
Prompted by a chance encounter with a colleague who had commented thatSamia Hussain was the only Muslimah she knew – in a city in which about12% of the population is Muslim –the author reached out across Canada to assemblean edited collection of autobiographical essays by Canadian Muslimahs:The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth: Personal Stories by CanadianMuslim Women. She asked them to “share their personal experiences relatingto what it meant for the…
Entertainment or blackface? Decoding Orientalism in a post-9/11 era
A recent quantitative study of headlines in the New York Times from 1990 to 2014 found that “57% of the headlines containing the words Islam/Muslims were scored negatively [out of three categories
The Muslim Question in Canada
Media Framing of the Muslim World
A succinct and accessible book, with many chapters that can stand alone asreadings for undergraduate or graduate classes, Media Framing of the MuslimWorld: Conflicts, Crises, and Contexts is a welcome addition to the literatureon Muslims and the media. The authors build on three key concepts: the ideathat the media should function, but often does not, as the fourth estate (an independentand critical press); Edward Said’s Orientalism(the West as t…
Modest Fashion
Finally it seems the academic study of hijab has come of age. The contributorsto this collection neither treat it as an object of curiosity or derision, nor wonderat Muslimahs’ “false consciousness”; rather, they treat this “piece of cloth” andthe accompanying dress code as a “normal” object of academic enquiry. Forexample, they expand the investigation to include attire for modest Jewish andChristian women, as well as for secular women who dress…
Visible and invisible
Most Muslims lay the blame for the perpetuation of societal prejudice against Islam and Muslims at the feet of the media. Media scholars regularly confirm that negative stereotypes prevail in contemporary western media. Yet there are differences between media representation and the effects on actual people’s attitudes. Empirical research is needed to find out if negative media stereotypes of Muslims, Arabs and Islam are actually linked to widespr…
Becoming “Holistically Indigenous
While media and the government often focus on the supposed “radicalization” of Muslim youth in Canada, our research explores the more complicated and nuanced political identities among 20 young Canadian Muslims. Using semi-structured in-depth interviews with these youth in the Greater Toronto Area and in London, Ontario, we explore these young citizens' concepts of political participation; conceptions of the self as a political actor; formal, inf…
Islam and Global Dialogue
If there were ever a time that a book on religious pluralism and peace oughtto be required reading for politicians, public intellectuals, policymakers, andthe media, as well as a general audience, that time is now. Conceived as aresponse to the excoriation of Islam after 9/11, Roger Boase has put togethera remarkable book on the need for interreligous dialogue as the only way to“lay the foundations for a more peaceful world (p. xviii).” This need…
Muslim Women Activists in North America
Arabian Mirrors and Western Soothsayers
This is a superb book. With penetrating insight and an eloquent style, alDa'miexplores the crucial role that Arabo-lslamic history played in thearguments of such prominent British and American "men of letters" asThomas Carlyle and Washington Irving. The book opens with a preface,in which he lays out his rationale and purpose, and contains seven chapters,in which he develops his argument.AI-Da'mi seeks to deepen our understanding of nineteenth-cen…
American Muslims
With a picture of a minaret superimposed on the Statue of Liberty, thisbook's cover is a striking introduction to what is inside. Like the Statue ofLiberty that has acted as a beacon of freedom for wave after wave ofrefugees and immigrants, Khan argues that Muslims in America are beaconsfor the Muslim world, calling the ummah to an Islam of moderation, tolerance,and excellence; helping to bring the ummah out of its current malaiseby engaging in i…
Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil
Toward the Full Inclusion of Muslim Women in the Ummah
This paper outlines some of the challenges that prevent Muslim women from becoming full members of the Ummah. Although we often hear of the rights of"women in ]slam'' in the abstract,1 we must know the specifics to improve the lives of Muslim women in reality. This paper tries to provide those specifics. It does not analyze the items, since the issues covered are many and disparate; rather, it simply highlights some concerns so that qualified pr…
Re-Telling the History of Political Thought
This paper explores the construction of the canon of political theory. I argue that the interpretation of the canon that defines ancient pagan Greeks as the founders of western political thought, includes medieval Christian thinkers, and yet defines out Muslim and Jewish philosophers is based upon western ethnocentric secular assumptions about the proper role of reason, experience and revelation in philosophical thinking
The Veil and the Male Elite
Convinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite, Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of the practice in the first Islamic community
Challenging Media Representations of the Veil
The image of the Muslim woman’s veil in the popular western media isthat it is a symbol of oppression and violence in Islam. The forced coveringof women in postrevolutionary Iran, or lately, under the Talibanin Afghanistan seems to confirm this image of the veil. But this singularimage of the ‘veil’ is not the whole story of covering. Since the late1970s scores of Muslim women, from Arabia to Asia to the West, havebeen voluntarily covering. The r…
Becoming “Holistically Indigenous
While media and the government often focus on the supposed “radicalization” of Muslim youth in Canada, our research explores the more complicated and nuanced political identities among 20 young Canadian Muslims. Using semi-structured in-depth interviews with these youth in the Greater Toronto Area and in London, Ontario, we explore these young citizens' concepts of political participation; conceptions of the self as a political actor; formal, inf…
The Veil and the Male Elite
Convinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite, Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of the practice in the first Islamic community
Challenging Media Representations of the Veil
The image of the Muslim woman’s veil in the popular western media isthat it is a symbol of oppression and violence in Islam. The forced coveringof women in postrevolutionary Iran, or lately, under the Talibanin Afghanistan seems to confirm this image of the veil. But this singularimage of the ‘veil’ is not the whole story of covering. Since the late1970s scores of Muslim women, from Arabia to Asia to the West, havebeen voluntarily covering. The r…
Orientalism on Television
This article examines Orientalism in the 1960s American sitcom I Dream of Jeannie . I argue that Orientalism, as defined by Edward Said, is at the core of this show. I Dream of Jeannie is unique in that it transferred existing Orientalist representations from cinema to television. I argue that Orientalism performs two functions in I Dream of Jeannie : (1) imagining Jeannie as an “Other” and (2) being a vehicle for comedy. I note that the show is …
Entertainment or blackface? Decoding Orientalism in a post-9/11 era
A recent quantitative study of headlines in the New York Times from 1990 to 2014 found that “57% of the headlines containing the words Islam/Muslims were scored negatively [out of three categories
The Veil and the Male Elite
Convinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite, Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of the practice in the first Islamic community
Challenging Media Representations of the Veil
The image of the Muslim woman’s veil in the popular western media isthat it is a symbol of oppression and violence in Islam. The forced coveringof women in postrevolutionary Iran, or lately, under the Talibanin Afghanistan seems to confirm this image of the veil. But this singularimage of the ‘veil’ is not the whole story of covering. Since the late1970s scores of Muslim women, from Arabia to Asia to the West, havebeen voluntarily covering. The r…
Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil
Toward the Full Inclusion of Muslim Women in the Ummah
This paper outlines some of the challenges that prevent Muslim women from becoming full members of the Ummah. Although we often hear of the rights of"women in ]slam'' in the abstract,1 we must know the specifics to improve the lives of Muslim women in reality. This paper tries to provide those specifics. It does not analyze the items, since the issues covered are many and disparate; rather, it simply highlights some concerns so that qualified pr…
Re-Telling the History of Political Thought
This paper explores the construction of the canon of political theory. I argue that the interpretation of the canon that defines ancient pagan Greeks as the founders of western political thought, includes medieval Christian thinkers, and yet defines out Muslim and Jewish philosophers is based upon western ethnocentric secular assumptions about the proper role of reason, experience and revelation in philosophical thinking
Arabian Mirrors and Western Soothsayers
This is a superb book. With penetrating insight and an eloquent style, alDa'miexplores the crucial role that Arabo-lslamic history played in thearguments of such prominent British and American "men of letters" asThomas Carlyle and Washington Irving. The book opens with a preface,in which he lays out his rationale and purpose, and contains seven chapters,in which he develops his argument.AI-Da'mi seeks to deepen our understanding of nineteenth-cen…
American Muslims
With a picture of a minaret superimposed on the Statue of Liberty, thisbook's cover is a striking introduction to what is inside. Like the Statue ofLiberty that has acted as a beacon of freedom for wave after wave ofrefugees and immigrants, Khan argues that Muslims in America are beaconsfor the Muslim world, calling the ummah to an Islam of moderation, tolerance,and excellence; helping to bring the ummah out of its current malaiseby engaging in i…
Muslim Women Activists in North America
Islam and Global Dialogue
If there were ever a time that a book on religious pluralism and peace oughtto be required reading for politicians, public intellectuals, policymakers, andthe media, as well as a general audience, that time is now. Conceived as aresponse to the excoriation of Islam after 9/11, Roger Boase has put togethera remarkable book on the need for interreligous dialogue as the only way to“lay the foundations for a more peaceful world (p. xviii).” This need…
Becoming “Holistically Indigenous
While media and the government often focus on the supposed “radicalization” of Muslim youth in Canada, our research explores the more complicated and nuanced political identities among 20 young Canadian Muslims. Using semi-structured in-depth interviews with these youth in the Greater Toronto Area and in London, Ontario, we explore these young citizens' concepts of political participation; conceptions of the self as a political actor; formal, inf…
Media Framing of the Muslim World
A succinct and accessible book, with many chapters that can stand alone asreadings for undergraduate or graduate classes, Media Framing of the MuslimWorld: Conflicts, Crises, and Contexts is a welcome addition to the literatureon Muslims and the media. The authors build on three key concepts: the ideathat the media should function, but often does not, as the fourth estate (an independentand critical press); Edward Said’s Orientalism(the West as t…
Modest Fashion
Finally it seems the academic study of hijab has come of age. The contributorsto this collection neither treat it as an object of curiosity or derision, nor wonderat Muslimahs’ “false consciousness”; rather, they treat this “piece of cloth” andthe accompanying dress code as a “normal” object of academic enquiry. Forexample, they expand the investigation to include attire for modest Jewish andChristian women, as well as for secular women who dress…
Visible and invisible
Most Muslims lay the blame for the perpetuation of societal prejudice against Islam and Muslims at the feet of the media. Media scholars regularly confirm that negative stereotypes prevail in contemporary western media. Yet there are differences between media representation and the effects on actual people’s attitudes. Empirical research is needed to find out if negative media stereotypes of Muslims, Arabs and Islam are actually linked to widespr…
The Muslim Question in Canada
The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth
Prompted by a chance encounter with a colleague who had commented thatSamia Hussain was the only Muslimah she knew – in a city in which about12% of the population is Muslim –the author reached out across Canada to assemblean edited collection of autobiographical essays by Canadian Muslimahs:The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth: Personal Stories by CanadianMuslim Women. She asked them to “share their personal experiences relatingto what it meant for the…
Entertainment or blackface? Decoding Orientalism in a post-9/11 era
A recent quantitative study of headlines in the New York Times from 1990 to 2014 found that “57% of the headlines containing the words Islam/Muslims were scored negatively [out of three categories
Pious Fashion
This book is a very welcome addition to the literature on Muslim women’s dress. It is part of a growing trend to treat Muslim women and their sarto- rial choices through sophisticated theories that recognise the agency, even humanity, of Muslim women. We are far from the days when an Ameri- can author would simply read a headscarf as a symbol of oppression, and Muslim women in need of rescue—at least in the academic realm, though certainly not in…
Orientalism on Television
This article examines Orientalism in the 1960s American sitcom I Dream of Jeannie . I argue that Orientalism, as defined by Edward Said, is at the core of this show. I Dream of Jeannie is unique in that it transferred existing Orientalist representations from cinema to television. I argue that Orientalism performs two functions in I Dream of Jeannie : (1) imagining Jeannie as an “Other” and (2) being a vehicle for comedy. I note that the show is …
Islamic Perspectives on Basic Income
The aim of this research is to present the Islamic perspective on the concept of Basic Income, and examine its emergence with the first Islamic society established at the time of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh). The scope of this research is to provide a historical account of Islamic society’s and Qur’anic foundations of social justice, provide Islamic definitions of the concepts involved in the Basic Income debate (such as wealth, poverty, and work), an…
Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love by David L. Johnston
Johnston, who spent over a decade as an evangelical clergyman in Algeria and a teacher in Egypt and the West Bank, hopes his book, Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love, will help reinforce the cooperative spirit between nations that seems to be diminishing in the contemporary world.Initially misled by the title, I was expecting the book to be a qualitative study based on interviews with Muslims and Christians debating justice and love. …
Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear
Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 35(3), pp. 582–583
In Your Face
Bakht’s previous work has shown deep insight into the topic of niqab in the West, with strong messages supporting the right of Muslim women to wear niqab and be included as full citizens in Western liberal democracies, while criticizing the numerous assumptions and objections that lead to niqab bans. I was eager to read her new book, In Your Face: Law, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Art (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Islamic Studies and History (9 works) · History (8 works)