The Promise of Patriarchy : Women and the Nation of Islam /

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Black women's experience in the Nation of Islam has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, Ula Y. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.)
Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) > History > 20th century.
Patriarchy.
Muslim women > Social conditions.
African American women > Social conditions.
Black Muslims > Social conditions.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Patriarcat (Sociologie)
Musulmanes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noires americaines > Conditions sociales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Black Muslims > Conditions sociales.
Muslim women > United States > Social conditions > History > 20th century.
African American women > Social conditions > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mrs. Clara Poole
  • Building a movement, fighting the devil
  • Allah Temple of Islam families : the Dillon report
  • Controlling the black body : internal and external challenges
  • World War II : women anchoring the Nation of Islam
  • Flexing a new womanhood
  • Nation of Islam womanhood, 1960-1975
  • The royal family
  • The appeal of black nationalism and the promise of prosperity
  • Modesty, marriage, and motherhood.

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