Format:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 224 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520222849
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0520215931
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (187-217) and index
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520215931
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Medicines of the Soul : Female Bodies and Sacred Geographies in a Transnational Islam
Language:
English
