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Fedwa Malti-Douglas Medicines of the Soul: Female Bodies and Sacred Geographies in a Transnational Islam
University of California Press 2001 0520222849 / 9780520222847 Paperback Fine n/a Paperback
New. Fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.Book Description. In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbreaking portrayal of gender, religion, and discourses of the body in Arabo-Islamic culture. At the center of each story is a lively female Islamic spirituality that questions secular hierarchies while reaffirming patriarchal ones. . . From the Inside Flap. "Fedwa Malti-Douglas . . . crosses linguistic, cultural, national, and religious frontiers; she gives consistency to an Islamic revival differentiated from Islamic fundamentalism, challenging methods, programs, problematisations of social, and political sciences applied to the study of the contemporary Islamic textual corpus. It is a needed contribution to the interpretation of the born-again phenomenon as expressed by female figures emerging from Islamic context where so far women are subjects talked about more than the subjects talking."--Mohammed Arkoun, editor of Arabica . . "The author's voice is nuanced by her wide knowledge of Islam, of feminism, and of life. One comes to know these women well, and to care about them. I was often deeply moved, and I was also often moved to laughter by the zany Marx Brothers--like collisions between the registers of East and West, or medicine and religion, or just between the wits of these gutsy, self-aware women and the flat-footed male establishment."--Wendy Doniger, author of The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade. . "A remarkable book. Combining textual analysis and biography Fedwa Malti-Douglas opens new vistas in understanding Islamist women and gender relations in contemporary Islam."--John L. Esposito, University Professor, Georgetown University
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Fedwa Malti-Douglas Medicines of the Soul: Female Bodies and Sacred Geographies in a Transnational Islam
University of California Press 05/03/2001 0520215931 / 9780520215931 Hardcover Near fine n/a Hardcover
New. Near fine in publisher's cloth as issued/no dust jacket. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbr
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Malti-Douglas, Fedwa The Starr Report Disrobed
Columbia University Press 2000 023111933X / 9780231119337 Paperback Near fine n/a Paperback
New. Near fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.Writing with wit, verve, and sharp perception, Fedwa Malti-Douglas provides fresh ways of understanding the Starr Report in relation to lasting issues of gender relations, narrative technique, and attitudes toward the body. Her deft cultural and textual analysis will give her readers lasting insight as well as immediate pleasure." -- Patricia Meyer Spacks, author of Advocacy in the Classroom "I read The Starr Report with horrified fascination. With force and brio, the brilliant Fedwa Malti-Douglas tells us why. Stripped bare, the body of The Starr Report is very, disturbingly American." -- Catharine R. Stimpson, Director, MacArthur Fellows Program "A masterful dissection of a politically and culturally crucial document." -- Henry Louis Gates Jr.... A masterful dissection of a politically and culturally crucial document. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr.... I read The Starr Report with horrified fascination. With force and brio, the brilliant Fedwa Malti-Douglas tells us why. Stripped bare, the body of The Starr Report is very, disturbingly American. -- Catherine R. Stimpson, New York University... Writing with wit, verve, and sharp perception, Fedwa Malti-Douglas provides fresh ways of understanding the Starr Report in relation to lasting issues of gender relations, narrative technique, and attitudes toward the body. Her deft cultural and textual analysis will give her readers lasting insight as well as immediate pleasure. -- Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, University of Virginia ... ... "Writing with wit, verve, and sharp perception, Fedwa Malti-Douglas provides fresh ways of understanding the Starr Report in relation to lasting issues of gender relations, narrative technique, and attitudes toward the body. Her deft cultural and textual analysis will give her readers lasting insight as well as immediate pleasure." -- Patricia Meyer Spacks, author of Advocacy in the Classroom... "I read The Starr Report with horrified fascination. With force and brio, the brilliant Fedwa Malti-Douglas tells us why. Stripped bare, the body of The Starr Report is very, disturbingly American." -- Catharine R. Stimpson, Director, MacArthur Fellows Program... "A masterful dissection of a politically and culturally crucial document." -- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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