Title: Barren Women
Description: This book explores the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world by examining legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching. Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance and scientific theories of reproduction contoured the intellectual and social landscape infertile women had to navigate.
Subjects: Middle Eastern history, Islamic life & practice, Islam, history, Female Infertility, History, Social aspects, Infertility, Religious aspects, Islam, Medicine, Reproductive health