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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kueny, Kathryn (1963-....)
Titre(s) : Conceiving identities [Texte imprimé] : maternity in medieval Muslim discourse and practice / Kathryn M. Kueny
Publication : Albany (N.Y.) : State University of New York Press, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : viii, 395 p. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Generating normative discourse ; On wombs, women and the hand of God: the bearing
of life in the Qurʼān ; Mapping the maternal body: the mechanics of reproduction
; Paradigms of the good mother ; Postpartum: making the good mother through public
rituals and embodied practices ; Mother as monster ; The cure of perfection ; The
making of medieval Muslim mothers.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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." -- Publisher website
Sujet(s) : Maternité -- Religion -- Islam -- Moyen âge
Femmes et islam -- Moyen âge
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781438447858 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 143844785X (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9781438447865. - ISBN 1438447868 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43737905m
Notice n° :
FRBNF43737905
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