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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Part I The Label: Self Definition and Imposed Identities.- Beyond divorce: Unraveling the intersection of culture, religion, and agency in Minang Muslim women's lives.- Reading between the lines: Exploring the literary identities of selected Muslim women writers in Malaysia.- Feminism under the Islamic lens.- The imperfectly perfect rib; womenkind.- What's in a surname? The negotiation of identity among South African Muslim women after marriage.- Part II Presentation of the Self: Adjustment and the Digital Space.- Malay Muslim women digital being: Embracing changes or defying forces?.- Fight or flight response: The representation of a Muslim transgender woman's struggle in the Malaysian print media.- Names and identity: The changing norms of Muslim names.- Role of Social Media in Shaping Muslim Women's Religious Identities: The Case of a Muslim Nation.- The rift in belonging: Muslim female migrants in Kafir (Non-Muslim) societies.- Part III Agent of Change: Empowered and Resilient.- Resilience in Muslim Women Living with HIV: An Integrative Review.- Woman, Islamic, intellectual, activist and academic, in Brazil? A dialogue with Francirosy Campos Barbosa.- From Single Motherhood to Co-Parenthood: The Islamic Perspective on Amicable Divorce, Co-Parenting, and Post-Divorce Harmony.- Practising local wisdom of traditional medicine and healing among female pengobat (shaman) in Pulau Penyengat, Kepulauan Riau.- Part IV Conversion: Faith and Self Identity.- Between Tradition and Faith: Navigating Identity Transformations of Chinese Muslim Women in Malaysia and China.- Islam as Everyday Lived Religion: The Cases of Converted Japanese Muslim Women.- Filipino Women Converts to Islam: Their Identities and Life Choices.- Part V Basic Rights: Birth, Health and Employment.- Lived Experiences of Bangladeshi Muslim Female Migrant Workers in Malaysia.- The Impact of Arab Culture on the Practice of Violence Against Women in Libya.- Only Empowered Births Here! Malay-Muslim women's embodied experiences challenging discourses of the deviant Malay-Muslim Maternal Mother.- Muslim Women and Islamic perspective on Female Circumcision.- An autoethnographic analysis of clandestine breast cancer among Muslim women.
