Medicines of the soul: female bodies and sacred geographies in a transnational Islam/
Fedwa Malti-Douglas
- Berkeley: University Of California Press, 2001.
- xxi, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Gender, culture, and religious revival -- Female body, male gaze -- Gender and spiritual vision -- Breast cancer, medicine and the transnational body -- Corporal geographies of salvation -- Sacred springs, damaged bodies -- The 'integrated' body -- Geograpies of the sacred.
9780520215931
Sex differentiation--Religious aspects--Islam Women in Islam Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam