Conceiving Identities

Conceiving Identities
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 406
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ISBN-10 : 9781438447872
ISBN-13 : 1438447876
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Book Synopsis Conceiving Identities by : Kathryn M. Kueny

Download or read book Conceiving Identities written by Kathryn M. Kueny and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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