Medicines of the soul [electronic resource] : female bodies and sacred geographies in a transnational Islam
Malti-Douglas, Fedwa.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
2001.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Feminism.
Feminism - Religious aspects - Islam.
Sex differentiation.
Sex differentiation - Religious aspects - Islam.
Women in Islam.
Islam
Religion
Philosophy & Religion