The promise of patriarchy : women and the Nation of Islam / Ula Yvette Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Ula Yvette

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patriarchy.

Muslim women--United States--Social conditions--History--20th century.

Muslim women.

African American women--Social conditions--History--20th century.

African American women.

Black Muslims--Social conditions.

Black Muslims.

Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.)--History--20th century.

Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

Black women's experience in the Nation of Islam has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy.

Contents:

Mrs. Clara Poole

Building a movement, fighting the devil

Allah Temple of Islam families : the Dillon report

Controlling the black body : internal and external challenges

World War II : women anchoring the Nation of Islam

Flexing a new womanhood

Nation of Islam womanhood, 1960-1975

The royal family

The appeal of black nationalism and the promise of prosperity

Modesty, marriage, and motherhood.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890840509

9798890840516

9781469633947

1469633949

9781469633954

1469633957

OCLC:

1003131200