September 5th 2006

Following the Cronulla riots, Muslim women have again found themselves targets of violence and abuse in public places. Meanwhile public figures claiming to defend women's rights have added to conflict by damning Islam as misogynistic and a threat to Australia's egalitarian culture. In this climate, how can Muslim women speak publicly about cultural change without fuelling further hatred?

This free public lecture confronts issues of feminism, nationalism and Islamophobia in the post-9/11 world.

Dr Ho
Christina Ho lectures in Social Inquiry in the UTS Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She researches migration, multiculturalism and gender and is currently working on a project in partnership with the Muslim Women Association entitled "Sanctuary and Security in Contemporary Australia: Muslim Women's Networks, 1980-2005".

Resources

• flyer (PDF 116k)
• talk
• audio recording (MP3 27MB)

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