Kueny Conceiving Identities

Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4787-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kueny, Kathryn M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Generating Normative Discourse

1. On Wombs, Women, and the Hand of God: The Bearing of Life in the Qur’an

2. Mapping the Maternal Body: The Mechanics of Reproduction

3. Paradigms of the Good Mother

4. Postpartum: Making the Good Mother through Public Rituals and Embodied Practices

5. Mother as Monster

6. The Cure of Perfection

7. The Making of Medieval Muslim Mothers

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kathryn M. Kueny is Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam, also published by SUNY Press.