Women responding to the anti-Islam film Fitna: Voices and acts of citizenship on YouTube

Feminist Review

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 110-129

  Vis, Farida ^a   Van Zoonen, Liesbet ^b,c   Mihelj, Sabina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Fitna; Gender, Islam; religion; YouTube

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952801555     PISSN: 01417789     EISSN: 14664380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/fr.2010.29     Document Type: Article

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