%0 Book
%A Farah Ali
%D 2026
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T I Do Not Want To Be Your Darling
%B Docile Women Unchained
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1597215
%X At its heart, I Don’t Want to Be Your Darling: Docile Women Unchained is a book about cracks, small, fragile, often overlooked fissures in the structures of power where resistance breathes. It is not a triumphant story of emancipation in the grand sense, but a quieter, more radical account of how Muslim women, often misrepresented or silenced, unchain themselves through subtle acts: through silence that resists, grief that testifies, laughter that wounds power, parody that unsettles, and reinvention that reclaims dignity. The book emerges from a contemporary moment in which Muslim women’s bodies have become political battlegrounds, legislated over, scrutinized, fetishized, and symbolized, but rarely heard in their own voices.
%K Muslim women, resistance, subjectivity, heteroglossia, carnival, chronotope, performativity, postcolonial feminism, diaspora, agency, Orientalism, gender and power
%G English