Malti-Douglas, Fedwa

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

297.082 / MAL/M