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Medicines of the soul : female bodies and sacred geographies in a transnational Islam / / Fedwa Malti-Douglas



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Autore: Malti-Douglas Fedwa Visualizza persona
Titolo: Medicines of the soul : female bodies and sacred geographies in a transnational Islam / / Fedwa Malti-Douglas Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , 2001
©2001
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 224 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 297/.082
892.7099287
Soggetto topico: Feminism - Religious aspects - Islam
Sex differentiation - Religious aspects - Islam
Women in Islam
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Medicines of the soul  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9780585389586
0-520-92467-3
1-59734-741-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780083103321
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