Ternikar Publishes Book

Farha Ternikar, Ph.D., director of the Gender and Women's Studies Program, published book titled Beyond Halal and Hijab: Intersectionality and Lifestyle Consumption. 

This book uses everyday consumption as a lens to analyze how South Asian Muslim American women negotiate racial, religious, gendered, classed and often political identities. In particular, Ternikar examines the use of food and clothing as well as social media accounts among this important immigrant population, offering new insight that goes beyond examining Muslim American women through the lens of hijab. This timely and nuanced interdisciplinary study draws on both sociology of consumption  and intersectional feminist theory.