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Medicines of the soul : female bodies and sacred geographies in a transnational Islam / Fedwa Malti-Douglas.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malti-Douglas, Fedwa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in Islam.
- Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Feminism.
- Sex differentiation--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Sex differentiation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 224 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbreaking portrayal of gender, religion, and discourses of the body in Arabo-Islamic culture.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Gender, Culture, and Religious Revival; 2. Female Body, Male Gaze; 3. Gender and Spiritual Vision; 4. Breast Cancer, Medicine, and the Transnational Body; 5. Corporal Geographies of Salvation; 6. Sacred Springs, Damaged Bodies; 7. The "Integrated" Body; 8. Geographies of the Sacred; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (187-217) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520924673
- 0520924673
- 9781597347419
- 1597347418
- 9780585389586
- OCLC:
- 475929219
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