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Author Malti-Douglas, Fedwa

Title Medicines of the soul : female bodies and sacred geographies in a transnational Islam / Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 224 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary In this work, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (187-217) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women in Islam.
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Sex differentiation -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
RELIGION / Islam / General
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Sex differentiation -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Women in Islam
Vrouwelijk lichaam.
Islam.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520924673
0520924673
0585389586
9780585389585
9780520215931
0520215931
1597347418
9781597347419
9780520222847
0520222849