American Journal of Islam and Society (Jul 2007)

American Muslim Women and Cross-Gender Interaction on Campus

  • Shabana Mir

DOI
https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v24i3.425
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 3

Abstract

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This article is based on a study of American Muslim undergraduate women’s identity construction via gendered behavior in university spaces. I conducted the study in 2002-03 at two private East Coast universities. My research questions centered upon the religious, ethnic, gender, and cultural/racial identities of American Muslim female undergraduates. I was also interested in the nature of pluralism at American college campuses; I believed that an interesting test of this pluralism would be to see how hospitable it was to the development of American Muslim women’s identities.