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Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women ""reproducing their oppression, "" as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the relig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Colección:George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
Temas:
Women in Islam.
Muslim women > Social conditions.
Muslim women > United States > Social conditions.
African American women > Religion.
Femmes dans l'islam.
Musulmanes > Conditions sociales.
Musulmanes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Noires américaines > Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
African American women > Religious life
Muslim women > Social conditions
Women in Islam
United States
african american women.
america.
black women.
comparative religion.
contemporary muslims.
deindustrialization.
ethnographers.
ethnography.
faith and religion.
gender issues.
gender norms.
islam.
los angeles.
mosques.
muslim converts.
muslim women.
nonfiction study.
obligation.
political radicals.
power and control.
race and gender.
social radicalization.
sunni muslims.
teachings of islam.
true stories.
urbanization.
women and family.
women in religion.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women ""reproducing their oppression, "" as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 271 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index.
ISBN:9780520937062
0520937066
141752541X
9781417525416
9780520237940
9780520237957
1282762869
9781282762862
9786612762864
6612762861
1597345997
9781597345996
0520237943
0520237951

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