Taylor, Lisa K. & Zine, Jasmin (dir.), Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy. Contested Imaginaries in Post-9/11 Cultural Practice, New York, Routledge, 2014, 316p.

The decade since 9/11 has seen an accelerated circulation and enthusiastic reception of representations of Muslim women’s lives. Marketed as a vehicle of intercultural understanding within the context of the “war on terror”, these representations are neither random nor innocent but rather reflect and participate in a long Orientalist and imperialist history. Contributors to this volume examine the hegemonic and contested global production and reception of narrative and visual representations ..