05335nam 2201057Ia 450 991082558600332120240410065623.01-282-76286-997866127628640-520-93706-61-59734-599-710.1525/9780520937062(CKB)1000000000221719(EBL)224769(OCoLC)475931895(SSID)ssj0000147402(PQKBManifestationID)11144772(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147402(PQKBWorkID)10011567(PQKB)10729134(MiAaPQ)EBC224769(DE-B1597)521024(OCoLC)56030067(DE-B1597)9780520937062(Au-PeEL)EBL224769(CaPaEBR)ebr10062332(CaONFJC)MIL276286(EXLCZ)99100000000022171920030206h20042004 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEngaged surrender African American women and Islam /Carolyn Moxley Rouse1st ed.Berkeley :University of California Press,2004.©20041 online resource (xvii, 271 pages)George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies0-520-23795-1 0-520-23794-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --PREFACE --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --1. Engaged Surrender --2. A Community of Women: Consensus, Borders, and Resistance Praxis --3. Gender Negotiations and Qur'anic Exegesis: One Community's Reading of Islam and Women --4. Historical Discourses --5. Soul Food: Changing Markers of Identity through the Transition --6. Conversion --7. Performing Gender: Marriage, Family, and Community --8. Searching for Islamic Purity In and Out of Secular Los Angeles County --9. Conclusion --Epilogue --NOTES --GLOSSARY --BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXCommonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in particular, Rouse shows how the teachings of Islam give these women a sense of power and control over interpretations of gender, family, authority, and obligations. In Engaged Surrender, Islam becomes a unique prism for clarifying the role of faith in contemporary black women's experience. Through these women's stories, Rouse reveals how commitment to Islam refracts complex processes-urbanization, political and social radicalization, and deindustrialization-that shape black lives generally, and black women's lives in particular. Rather than focusing on traditional (and deeply male) ideas of autonomy and supremacy, the book-and the community of women it depicts-emphasizes more holistic notions of collective obligation, personal humility, and commitment to overarching codes of conduct and belief. A much-needed corrective to media portraits of Islam and the misconceptions they engender, this engaged and engaging work offers an intimate, in-depth look into the vexed and interlocking issues of Islam, gender, and race.George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American StudiesWomen in IslamMuslim womenSocial conditionsMuslim womenUnited StatesSocial conditionsAfrican American womenReligionafrican american women.america.black women.comparative religion.contemporary muslims.deindustrialization.ethnographers.ethnography.faith and religion.gender issues.gender norms.islam.los angeles.mosques.muslim converts.muslim women.nonfiction study.obligation.political radicals.power and control.race and gender.social radicalization.sunni muslims.teachings of islam.true stories.urbanization.women and family.women in religion.Women in Islam.Muslim womenSocial conditions.Muslim womenSocial conditions.African American womenReligion.305.48/6971073Rouse Carolyn Moxley1965-1629602MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825586003321Engaged surrender4051489UNINA