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Engaged surrender : African American women and Islam /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| 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 |