Creative conformity the feminist politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women /

Main Author: Bucar, Elizabeth M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2011.
Series:Moral traditions series
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10463175
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on transcription
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • 1
  • What's a good woman to do? Recasting the symbolics of moral exemplars
  • 2. Surprises from the laps of mothers: Leveraging the gaps in procreative virtues
  • 3. Scripture, sacred law, and hermeneutics: exploring gendered meanings in textual records
  • 4. Performance beyond the pulpit: Presenting disorderly bodies in public spaces
  • 5. Republication of moral discourse: Compromise and censorship as political freedom
  • Conclusions
  • Epilogue
  • Revisiting Mrs. Habibi and feminist politics
  • Glossary of working definitions and commonly used Arabic and Persian words
  • References.