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Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast

Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast

Stiles, Erin E.

Hardcover

Series: Indian Ocean Studies

IslamGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0821421867
ISBN13: 9780821421864
Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Published: Oct 21 2015
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Muslim communities throughout the Indian Ocean have long questioned what it means to be a good Muslim. Much recent scholarship on Islam in the Indian Ocean considers debates among Muslims about authenticity, authority, and propriety. Despite the centrality of this topic within studies of Indian Ocean, African, and other Muslim communities, little of the existing scholarship has addressed such debates in relation to women, gender, or sexuality. Yet women are deeply involved with ideas about what it means to be a good Muslim.

In Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean, anthropologists, historians, linguists, and gender studies scholars examine Islam, sexuality, gender, and marriage on the Swahili coast and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. The book examines diverse sites of empowerment, contradiction, and resistance affecting cultural norms, Islam and ideas of Islamic authenticity, gender expectations, ideologies of modernity, and British education. The book's attention to both masculinity and femininity, broad examination of the transnational space of the Swahili coast, and inclusion of research on non-Swahili groups on the East African coast makes it a unique and indispensable resource.

Contributors: Nadine Beckmann, Pat Caplan, Corrie Decker, Rebecca Gearhart, Linda Giles, Meghan Halley, Susan Hirsch, Susi Keefe, Kjersti Larsen, Elisabeth McMahon, Erin Stiles, and Katrina Daly Thompson

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