Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, Body, Sexuality And Health, Volume 3

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Suad Joseph, Afsāna Naǧmābādī
BRILL, 2003 - Social Science - 564 pages
Volume III, Family, Body, Sexuality, and Health¸ holds 196 articles on 56 topics. It includes articles on aging; the body; breastfeeding; celibacy; child marriage; childhood; courtship; disabilities; food preparation; funerary practices; genital cutting; health policies, practices, and education; poverty; HIV and AIDS; reproduction; incest; love; marriage discourses and practices; reproduction; science; sexual harassment; discourses, education and practices related to sexualities; sports; suicide; and virginity. The articles are organized alphabetically by topic and within topics alphabetically by region. In addition, Volume III includes an extensive bibliography and analysis of over 1,000 doctoral dissertations written on women and Islamic cultures.
 

Contents

Amulets FortuneTelling and Magic
17
Bodily Waste
27
Iran Negar Mottahedeh
37
Yemen Najwa Adra
48
Child Marriage
54
Coming of Age Rituals
68
90
140
Health Policies
164
New Technologies
350
Science and Modern Islamic Discourses
360
Science and Nation
366
Sexual Harassment
372
Practices
383
Scientific Discourses Modern
420
Sports
440
Turkey Selcan Teoman
449

96
168
Health and Poverty
172
Health Practices
189
98
199
107
210
Western Europe Lenie Brouwer
224
Mental Health
268
Nutrition and Dietary Practices
283
108
293
Abortion
303
Turkey N Yasemin Oguz
312
109
320
Conception Reproductive Choices and Islam
322
Virginity
457
Production of Doctoral Knowledge on Women and Islamic Cultures
473
Tony Beukers Eva Brown Rhyen Coombs Megan Fowler Monica Garcia Beth Lansom Fatima Malik
492
Bibliography
499
1
545
375
547
172
550
11
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118
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176
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384
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47
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Suad Joseph, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, is Professor of Anthropology and Womens Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has published Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity (Syracuse University Press,1999), Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (Syracuse University Press, 2000).

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