Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia Nature_Gift_Guide Iris’s family has built a

Iris’s family has built a health empire based on a sinister secret

and college failure

ski resorts opened throughout the state

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Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia Nature_Gift_Guide Iris’s family has built aMuslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new lens through which to study notions of selfhood. In Elusive Lives, she locates the voices of Muslim women who rejected taboos against women speaking out,