Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil (Paperback)

Katherine Bullock received her PhD in political science from the University of Toronto (1999). She is a writer, lecturer, publisher, and mother. Her books include: Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves, and Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes, which has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Malayalam, Tamil and Turkish. Over the last few decades she has co-founded and sat on the boards of several grassroots and academic organisations. Her latest research studies how Canadian Muslim healthcare workers cope with workplace anti-Muslim racism. Originally from Australia, she embraced Islam in 1994. Katherine Bullock is a lecturer in Islamic politics in the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto at Mississauga. She is a TV host for Sound Vision Foundation’s Muslim News Canada, and President of Compass Books, dedicated to publishing top-quality books about Islam and Muslims in English. Her research focuses on Muslims in Canada, their history, contemporary lived experiences, political and civic engagement, debates on the veil, media representations of Islam and Muslims, and Muslim perspectives on zakat and Basic Income.