Conceiving Identities: Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice
Author:   Kathryn M. Kueny
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   404
Publication Date:   02 July 2014
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Conceiving Identities: Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice


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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.

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Author:   Kathryn M. Kueny
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9781438447865


ISBN 10:   1438447868
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   02 July 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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.

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