Indigestible performances

Women, punk, and the limits of British multiculturalism in Nida Mazoor's We Are Lady Parts

Bibliographic Data

ID2179782
AuthorsMuzna Rahman
Year2024
Volume60
Issue2
Pages199-214
Publication date2024-03-03
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449855.2024.2361148
OpenAlexW4399812094
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

This article examines the political potential and limits of Muslim punk feminism within the context of multicultural Britain through a reading of the first season of Channel 4’s 2021 dramedy We Are Lady Parts. The show explores how the religious and cultural beliefs of Muslim communities are represented as incompatible with contemporary British values. To situate the cultural politics of the text, the article considers the characters in relation to their exclusion from “legitimate” British society, as well as their original feminist strategies as a subversive and novel response to it. Muslim women are read through a nexus of social factors–international and national. These readings can be viewed as both productive and conflicting: at some times producing important rereadings of the submissive and oppressed orientalized Muslim female figure, while at others challenging the possibility of a stable Muslim female identity as positioned in normative models of British assimilationist multiculturalism

Art · Art history · Genealogy · Multiculturalism · Punk · Sociology · Music History and Culture · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture · Gender Studies · History

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