ISBN:
9780520237940
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0520237943
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9780520237957
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0520237951
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9780520937062
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0520937066
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141752541X
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9781417525416
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvii, 271 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Ghozzi, Kamel Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam, by Carolyn Moxley Rouse. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 271pp.; 50.00 USD (cloth), 19.95 USD (paper) 2005
Series Statement:
George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Engaged surrender
DDC:
305.48697073
Keywords:
Muslim women Social conditions
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Muslim women Social conditions
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United States
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African American women Religious life
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United States
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Women in Islam
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Muslim women Social conditions
;
Muslim women Social conditions
;
African American women Religious life
;
African American women Religious life
;
Muslim women Social conditions
;
Muslim women Social conditions
;
Women in Islam
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
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African American women ; Religious life
;
Muslim women ; Social conditions
;
Women in Islam
;
Electronic books
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United States
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Electronic books Electronic books
Abstract:
Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women ""reproducing their oppression, "" as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in
Abstract:
Engaged surrender -- A community of women : consensus, borders, and resistance praxis -- Gender negotiations and Qur'anic exegesis : one community's reading of Islam and women -- Historical discourses -- Soul food : changing markers of identity through the transition -- Conversion -- Performing gender : marriage, family, and community -- Searching for Islamic purity in and out of secular Los Angeles County.
Description / Table of Contents:
Engaged surrenderA community of women : consensus, borders, and resistance praxis -- Gender negotiations and Qur'anic exegesis : one community's reading of Islam and women -- Historical discourses -- Soul food : changing markers of identity through the transition -- Conversion -- Performing gender : marriage, family, and community -- Searching for Islamic purity in and out of secular Los Angeles County.
Note:
"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index
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