Conceiving Identities: Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice - Softcover

Kueny, Kathryn M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438447868 ISBN 13: 9781438447865

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2014

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Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it.
Conceiving Identities explores how medieval Muslim theologians appropriate a woman’s reproductive power to construct a female gender identity in which maternity is a central component. Through a close analysis of seventh- through fourteenth-century exegetical works, medical treatises, legal pronouncements, historiographies, zoologies, and other literary materials, this study considers how medieval Muslim scholars map the female reproductive body according to broader, cosmological schemes to generate a woman’s role as “mother.” By close consideration of folk medicine and magic, this book also reveals how medieval women contest the traditional maternal identities imagined for them and thereby reinvent themselves as mothers and Muslims. This innovative examination of the discourse and practices surrounding maternity forges new ground as it takes up the historical and epistemic construction of medieval Muslim women’s identities.

Biografía del autor:

Kathryn M. Kueny is Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam, also published by SUNY Press.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1438447868
• ISBN 13: 9781438447865
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 404