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Creative conformity : the feminist politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women /

Much feminist scholarship has viewed Catholicism and Shi'i Islam as two religious traditions that, historically, have greeted feminist claims with skepticism or outright hostility. Creative Conformity demonstrates how certain liberal secular assumptions about these religious traditions are only...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bucar, Elizabeth M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Moral traditions series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on transcriptions
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: Creative conformity, clerical guidance, and a rhetorical turn
  • 1. What's a good woman to do? Recasting the symbolics of moral exemplars
  • 2. Surprises from the laps of mothers: leveraging the gaps in procreative virtues
  • 3. Scripture, sacred law, and hermeneutics: exploring gendered meanings in textual records
  • 4. Performance beyond the pulpit: presenting disorderly bodies in public spaces
  • 5. Republication of moral discourse: compromise and censorship as political freedom
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: Revisiting Shahla Habibi.