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Conceiving Identities

By Kueny, Kathryn M.

Conceiving Identities

By Kueny, Kathryn M.

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
404
Release Date:
2013-11-01
Publication Date:
2013-11-01
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
143844785X
ISBN13:
9781438447858
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
804 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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