Engaged surrender : African American women and Islam /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Series:George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Engaged surrender
  • A community of women : consensus, borders, and resistance praxis
  • Gender negotiations and Qur'anic exegesis : one community's reading of Islam and women
  • Historical discourses
  • Soul food : changing markers of identity through the transition
  • Conversion
  • Performing gender : marriage, family, and community
  • Searching for Islamic purity in and out of secular Los Angeles County.

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