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Engaged surrender : African American women and Islam / / Carolyn Moxley Rouse
| Engaged surrender : African American women and Islam / / Carolyn Moxley Rouse |
| Autore | Rouse Carolyn Moxley <1965-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 271 pages) |
| Disciplina | 305.48/6971073 |
| Collana | George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Women in Islam
Muslim women - Social conditions Muslim women - United States - Social conditions African American women - Religion |
| Soggetto non controllato |
african 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 |
| ISBN |
1-282-76286-9
9786612762864 0-520-93706-6 1-59734-599-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783457603321 |
Rouse Carolyn Moxley <1965->
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| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Engaged surrender : African American women and Islam / / Carolyn Moxley Rouse
| Engaged surrender : African American women and Islam / / Carolyn Moxley Rouse |
| Autore | Rouse Carolyn Moxley <1965-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 271 pages) |
| Disciplina | 305.48/6971073 |
| Collana | George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Women in Islam
Muslim women - Social conditions Muslim women - United States - Social conditions African American women - Religion |
| Soggetto non controllato |
african 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 |
| ISBN |
1-282-76286-9
9786612762864 0-520-93706-6 1-59734-599-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825586003321 |
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Rouse Carolyn Moxley <1965->
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| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Land of the Unconquerable : The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women / / Jennifer Heath, Ashraf Zahedi
| Land of the Unconquerable : The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women / / Jennifer Heath, Ashraf Zahedi |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (409 pages) |
| Disciplina | 305.48/891593 |
| Soggetto topico |
Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century
Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century Women - Social conditions - 21st century - Afghanistan |
| Soggetto non controllato |
afghan women
afghan afghanistan agency al qaeda anthropology burqa community development domesticity education empowerment femininity feminism food security gender studies gender health islam justice marriage middle east muslim women nonfiction orientalism peace poetry politics prisoners prostitution religion religious fundamentalism religious women rural sex work social policy social science sociology urban war on terror war women womens studies |
| ISBN |
1-283-27805-7
9786613278050 0-520-94899-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women's Status -- CHAPTER 2. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereo types, and Afghan Women's Agency -- CHAPTER 3. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women's Resilience -- CHAPTER 4. Don't Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Women -- CHAPTER 5. Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTube -- CHAPTER 6. Women's Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests? -- CHAPTER 7. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts -- CHAPTER 8. Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison -- CHAPTER 9. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul -- CHAPTER 10. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 11. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 12. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife's Experiences -- CHAPTER 13. Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decades -- CHAPTER 14. A Question of Access: Women and Food Security -- CHAPTER 15. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Health -- CHAPTER 16. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women -- CHAPTER 17. Rural Women's Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economy -- CHAPTER 18. Chadari Politics Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practice -- CHAPTER 19. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women's Empowerment -- CHAPTER 20. Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success -- CHAPTER 21. From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media -- CHAPTER 22. Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and the Visual Arts -- CHAPTER 23. A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan's Women Poets -- CHAPTER 24. Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791884703321 |
| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Land of the Unconquerable : The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women / / Jennifer Heath, Ashraf Zahedi
| Land of the Unconquerable : The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women / / Jennifer Heath, Ashraf Zahedi |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (409 pages) |
| Disciplina | 305.48/891593 |
| Soggetto topico |
Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century
Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century Women - Social conditions - 21st century - Afghanistan |
| Soggetto non controllato |
afghan women
afghan afghanistan agency al qaeda anthropology burqa community development domesticity education empowerment femininity feminism food security gender studies gender health islam justice marriage middle east muslim women nonfiction orientalism peace poetry politics prisoners prostitution religion religious fundamentalism religious women rural sex work social policy social science sociology urban war on terror war women womens studies |
| ISBN |
1-283-27805-7
9786613278050 0-520-94899-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women's Status -- CHAPTER 2. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereo types, and Afghan Women's Agency -- CHAPTER 3. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women's Resilience -- CHAPTER 4. Don't Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Women -- CHAPTER 5. Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTube -- CHAPTER 6. Women's Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests? -- CHAPTER 7. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts -- CHAPTER 8. Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison -- CHAPTER 9. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul -- CHAPTER 10. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 11. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 12. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife's Experiences -- CHAPTER 13. Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decades -- CHAPTER 14. A Question of Access: Women and Food Security -- CHAPTER 15. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Health -- CHAPTER 16. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women -- CHAPTER 17. Rural Women's Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economy -- CHAPTER 18. Chadari Politics Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practice -- CHAPTER 19. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women's Empowerment -- CHAPTER 20. Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success -- CHAPTER 21. From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media -- CHAPTER 22. Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and the Visual Arts -- CHAPTER 23. A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan's Women Poets -- CHAPTER 24. Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818777003321 |
| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The veil : women writers on its history, lore, and politics / / edited by Jennifer Heath
| The veil : women writers on its history, lore, and politics / / edited by Jennifer Heath |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 pages) |
| Disciplina | 391.4/1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | HeathJennifer |
| Soggetto topico |
Veils - Social aspects
Veils - History Veils in literature |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american muslim women
amish veil community controversial cultural studies dress code emotional expression of the sacred gender studies gospel groundbreaking hasidic women hijab identity india islam islamic dress male veiling medieval europe middle east modesty mourning muslim women patriarchy religious studies sensual separation seven veils sociopolitical trauma veil veiling wearing a veil wedding veil womanhood women |
| ISBN |
1-282-77231-7
9786612772313 0-520-94160-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. From Her Royal Body the Robe Was Removed: The Blessings of the Veil and the Trauma of Forced Unveilings in the Middle East -- 2. Shattered Vessels That Contain Divine Sparks: Unveiling Hasidic Women's Dress Code -- 3. Going the Whole Nine Yards: Vignettes of the Veil in India -- 4. Out of the Cloister: Unveiling to Better Serve the Gospel -- 5. The Amish Veil: Symbol of Separation and Community -- 6. "What is subordinated, dominates": Mourning, Magic, Masks, and Male Veiling -- 7. I Just Want to Be Me: Issues in Identity for One American Muslim Woman -- 8. "She freed and floated on the air": Salome and Her Dance of the Seven Veils -- 9. "He hath couerd my soule inwarde": Veiling in Medieval Europe and the Early Church -- 10. Nubo: The Wedding Veil -- 11. After Eden: The Veil as a Conduit to the Internal -- 12. Virtue and Sin: An Arab Christian Woman's Perspective -- 13. Drawing the Line at Modesty: My Place in the Order of Things -- 14. On the Road: Travels with My Hijab -- 15. Purdah, Patriarchy, and the Tropical Sun: Womanhood in India -- 16. The Veil: From Persepolis -- 17. Concealing and Revealing Female Hair: Veiling Dynamics in Contemporary Iran -- 18. That (Afghan) Girl! Ideology Unveiled in National Geographic -- 19. Burqas and Bikinis: Islamic Dress in Newspaper Cartoons -- 20. Dress Codes andModes: How Islamic Is the Veil? -- 21. From Veil to Veil: "What's in a woman's head is a lot more important than what's on it" -- Epilogue -- About the Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778080603321 |
| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The veil : women writers on its history, lore, and politics / / edited by Jennifer Heath
| The veil : women writers on its history, lore, and politics / / edited by Jennifer Heath |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 pages) |
| Disciplina | 391.4/1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | HeathJennifer |
| Soggetto topico |
Veils - Social aspects
Veils - History Veils in literature |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american muslim women
amish veil community controversial cultural studies dress code emotional expression of the sacred gender studies gospel groundbreaking hasidic women hijab identity india islam islamic dress male veiling medieval europe middle east modesty mourning muslim women patriarchy religious studies sensual separation seven veils sociopolitical trauma veil veiling wearing a veil wedding veil womanhood women |
| ISBN |
1-282-77231-7
9786612772313 0-520-94160-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. From Her Royal Body the Robe Was Removed: The Blessings of the Veil and the Trauma of Forced Unveilings in the Middle East -- 2. Shattered Vessels That Contain Divine Sparks: Unveiling Hasidic Women's Dress Code -- 3. Going the Whole Nine Yards: Vignettes of the Veil in India -- 4. Out of the Cloister: Unveiling to Better Serve the Gospel -- 5. The Amish Veil: Symbol of Separation and Community -- 6. "What is subordinated, dominates": Mourning, Magic, Masks, and Male Veiling -- 7. I Just Want to Be Me: Issues in Identity for One American Muslim Woman -- 8. "She freed and floated on the air": Salome and Her Dance of the Seven Veils -- 9. "He hath couerd my soule inwarde": Veiling in Medieval Europe and the Early Church -- 10. Nubo: The Wedding Veil -- 11. After Eden: The Veil as a Conduit to the Internal -- 12. Virtue and Sin: An Arab Christian Woman's Perspective -- 13. Drawing the Line at Modesty: My Place in the Order of Things -- 14. On the Road: Travels with My Hijab -- 15. Purdah, Patriarchy, and the Tropical Sun: Womanhood in India -- 16. The Veil: From Persepolis -- 17. Concealing and Revealing Female Hair: Veiling Dynamics in Contemporary Iran -- 18. That (Afghan) Girl! Ideology Unveiled in National Geographic -- 19. Burqas and Bikinis: Islamic Dress in Newspaper Cartoons -- 20. Dress Codes andModes: How Islamic Is the Veil? -- 21. From Veil to Veil: "What's in a woman's head is a lot more important than what's on it" -- Epilogue -- About the Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809274803321 |
| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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