Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, Body, Sexuality And Health, Volume 3Suad Joseph, Afsāna Naǧmābādī 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
Aging | 1 |
Amulets FortuneTelling and Magic | 17 |
Bodily Waste | 27 |
Female | 34 |
Breastfeeding | 49 |
Coming of Age Rituals | 68 |
Premodern and Modern | 77 |
Overview Elizabeth Warnock Fernea | 81 |
Conception Reproductive Choices and Islam | 322 |
94 | 335 |
Infertility | 338 |
96 | 347 |
New Technologies | 350 |
Science and Modern Islamic Discourses | 362 |
Science and Nation | 366 |
Sexual Harassment | 372 |
Central Asia Kathleen Kuehnast Iran and Afghanistan Erika Friedl The Ottoman Empire Kathryn R Libal Turkey Kathryn R Libal The United States ... | 97 |
Disabilities Arab States Souraya Sue ElHessen South Asia Neena Khanna | 98 |
Food Preparation Arab States Juan E Campo and Magda Campo Arabian Peninsula Ianthe Mary Maclagan The Caucasus Mary Ellen Chatwin Mame... | 103 |
Genital Cutting Africa and the Middle East Noor Kassamali Europe North America Australia and New Zealand Noor Kassamali | 129 |
Drug | 135 |
77 | 139 |
83 | 141 |
Health Policies | 164 |
Health and Poverty | 172 |
Health Practices | 189 |
Health Practices and Nutrition and Dietary Practices | 205 |
Health and Reproductive Health | 211 |
Sexually Transmitted Diseases | 219 |
Incest | 227 |
Premodern Discourses | 236 |
84 | 242 |
Islamic Discourses | 246 |
Mental Health | 268 |
86 | 282 |
Nutrition and Dietary Practices | 283 |
91 | 295 |
93 | 297 |
Abortion | 313 |
Scientific Discourses Modern | 393 |
98 | 397 |
Scientific Discourses Premodern | 401 |
Sex Education Manuals Modern | 408 |
99 | 417 |
Transvestism | 418 |
Spirit Possession | 425 |
Suicide | 450 |
Virginity | 457 |
Production of Doctoral Knowledge on Women and Islamic Cultures | 473 |
103 | 480 |
Tony Beukers Eva Brown Rhyen Coombs Megan Fowler Monica Garcia Beth Lansom Fatima Malik | 492 |
Bibliography | 498 |
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