Muslim Women and Agency: an Australian Context

Ghena Krayem, Ph.D. (2011) is Associate Professor at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Australia. Since 2000, Ghena has been a legal academic teaching in the areas of constitutional law, public law and family law. She has researched and published in many areas to do with Islam in Australia, particularly focusing on Muslim women and Islamic family law. She has authored and co-authored a number of books relating to Muslims in Australia, including Islamic Family Law in Australia (Melbourne University Publishing, 2014), Accommodating Muslims under Common Law (Routledge, 2016), and Understanding Sharia Processes, Women’s Experiences of Family Disputes (Hart, 2021).Susan Carland, Ph.D. (2015), Monash University, is Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellow at that university. She has published in both academic and mainstream publications about Islam and Muslim women, including Fighting Hislam: Women, Faith, and Sexism (Melbourne University Publishing, 2017).

• Notes on Contributors1 IntroductionSusan Carland and Ghena Krayem2 Al-Mu’minah Down Under: The Untold Stories and Legacies of Muslim Women Pioneers in AustraliaMahsheed Ansari3 Muslim Women’s Agency Through a Feminist Institutionalist LensAmira Aftab4 Western and Australian Women’s Agency to Counter IslamophobiaDerya Iner and Souha Korbatieh5 Muslim Women’s Agency in Australian Domestic Violence ServicesGhena Krayem and Mehal Krayem6 The Pathology of Hyper Masculinity and Abuse in Muslim LeadershipTasneem Chopra7 The Difficulty of Muslim Women Fighting Sexism: Then and NowSusan Carland8 Rejecting the Reductionism of Muslim WomenFadi Baghdadi9 ‘Left out’ and ‘Ignored’: Experiences of Australian, Lebanese-Muslim Women with Hearing LossAyah Wehbe10 Finding a Way Forward: The Revival of Female Islamic Scholarship in AustraliaFeda Abdo and Balawyn Jones11 Politics of Representation: Overcoming the Narrow Perception of Muslim WomenMehreen FaruqiIndex