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Book Description
Volume III of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, 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.
About the Author
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) and Gender and Power in the Middle East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health , Volume 3 (Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures),Suad Joseph,Afsaneh Najmabadi,Brill Academic Publishers,9004128190,Architecture,Encyclopedias,Gender Studies,Interior Design - General,Islam - Rituals & Practice,Islamic Studies,Islamic countries,Muslim women,Social Science,Sociology,Women,Women in Islam,Women's Studies - General
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