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Conceiving Identities
Kathryn M. Kueny
其他書名
Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and Practice
出版State University of New York Press, 2013-10-28
主題Religion / Islam / HistoryReligion / Islam / TheologyReligion / Islam / General
ISBN14384478769781438447872
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aft7NkLE4RoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Finalist for the 2014 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, textual studies category presented by the American Academy of Religion

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.