Medicines of the Soul,9780520215931

Medicines of the Soul

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ISBN13: 9780520215931
ISBN10: 0520215931
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-02-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary

Malti-Douglas asks why a highly educated woman would embrace traditional Islamic religion and values; she seeks the answers in autobiographical writings of three woman from diverse backgrounds.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Preface xi
Introduction xvii
Gender, Culture, and Religious Revival
1(14)
Female Body, Male Gaze
15(33)
Gender and Spiritual Vision
48(21)
Breast Cancer, Medicine, and the Transnational Body
69(24)
Corporal Geographies of Salvation
93(26)
Sacred Springs, Damaged Bodies
119(29)
The ``Integrated'' Body
148(20)
Geographies of the Sacred
168(19)
Notes 187(32)
Index 219

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