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092			_aVernon, L. _bV541
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aVernon, Leah, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aUnashamed : _bmusings of a fat, black Muslim / _cLeah Vernon.
264		1	_aBoston : _bBeacon Press, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019
300			_axi, 227 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Ever since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what to believe and how to act. There wasn't any room for imperfection. Good Muslim girls listened more than they spoke. They didn't have a missing father or a mother with mental illness. They didn't have fat bodies or grow up wishing they could be like the white characters they saw on TV. They didn't have husbands who abused and cheated on them. They certainly didn't have secret abortions. In Unashamed, Vernon takes to task the myth of the perfect Muslim woman with frank dispatches on her love-hate relationship with her hijab and her faith, race, weight, mental illness, domestic violence, sexuality, the millennial world of dating, and the process of finding her voice. She opens up about her tumultuous adolescence living at the poverty line with her fiercely loving but troubled mother, her deadbeat dad, and her siblings, and the violent dissolution of her 10-year marriage. Tired of the constant policing of her clothing in the name of Islam and Western beauty standards, Vernon reflects on her experiences with hustling paycheck to paycheck, body-shaming, and redefining what it means to be a "good" Muslim"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aVernon, Leah.
650		0	_aMuslim women _zUnited States _vBiography. _981102
650		0	_aAfrican American Muslims _vBiography. _912101
650		0	_aBody image in women. _919574
650		0	_aFeminism. _951470
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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