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

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
113
545
116
548
293
551
124
553
125
554
142
555
161
557
229
558
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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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