Jameelah X Medina
Biographic Data
| ID | 6567739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jameelah X Medina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jameelah X |
| FAMILY NAME | Medina |
| SIGNATURE | MEDINA J X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont Graduate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
This Battlefield Called My Body
This communication centers on the argument that there is an ideological tug-of-war over the Muslim female body. The author discusses how religious and secular patriarchies, as well as feminism all make claims to the bodies of Muslim women and purport to know what is best for her. With particular focus on the headscarf and using comparisons with how non-Muslim women's bodies are fought over, the author argues that there is a common thread connecti…
Body politicking and the phenomenon of ‘passing’
The author takes a transdisciplinary approach to the study of body politics. She careens through topics of feminism, religion, social capital, stigma, heteronormativity, whiteness, colorblind racism in her discussion of access and acceptance granted or denied. This access and acceptance are based upon how the female bodies of two women are perceived differently in the same setting, although neither woman is part of mainstream society. Using a jou…
This Battlefield Called My Body
This communication centers on the argument that there is an ideological tug-of-war over the Muslim female body. The author discusses how religious and secular patriarchies, as well as feminism all make claims to the bodies of Muslim women and purport to know what is best for her. With particular focus on the headscarf and using comparisons with how non-Muslim women's bodies are fought over, the author argues that there is a common thread connecti…
Body politicking and the phenomenon of ‘passing’
The author takes a transdisciplinary approach to the study of body politics. She careens through topics of feminism, religion, social capital, stigma, heteronormativity, whiteness, colorblind racism in her discussion of access and acceptance granted or denied. This access and acceptance are based upon how the female bodies of two women are perceived differently in the same setting, although neither woman is part of mainstream society. Using a jou…
This Battlefield Called My Body
This communication centers on the argument that there is an ideological tug-of-war over the Muslim female body. The author discusses how religious and secular patriarchies, as well as feminism all make claims to the bodies of Muslim women and purport to know what is best for her. With particular focus on the headscarf and using comparisons with how non-Muslim women's bodies are fought over, the author argues that there is a common thread connecti…
Art (2 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mainstream (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)