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Conceiving Identities
- Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice
Engelsk Paperback
Conceiving Identities
- Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice
Engelsk Paperback

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Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it. Finalist for the 2014 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, textual studies category presented by the American Academy of Religion Conceiving Identities explores how medieval Muslim theologians appropriate a woman's reproductive power to construct a female gender identity in which maternity is a central component. Through a close analysis of seventh- through fourteenth-century exegetical works, medical treatises, legal pronouncements, historiographies, zoologies, and other literary materials, this study considers how medieval Muslim scholars map the female reproductive body according to broader, cosmological schemes to generate a woman's role as "mother." By close consideration of folk medicine and magic, this book also reveals how medieval women contest the traditional maternal identities imagined for them and thereby reinvent themselves as mothers and Muslims. This innovative examination of the discourse and practices surrounding maternity forges new ground as it takes up the historical and epistemic construction of medieval Muslim women's identities.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
404
ISBN-13:
9781438447865
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1438447868
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Udg. Dato:
2 jul 2014
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
2 jul 2014
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