Women, religion, & space : global perspectives on gender and faith / edited by Karen M. Morin and Jeanne Kay Guelke.

Other author Morin, Karen M.
Other author Guelke, Jeanne Kay.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoSyracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxxxi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Women and religion.

Variant title Women, religion, and space
SeriesSpace, place, and society
Space, place, and society. ^A400207
Contents Preface / Karen M. Morin -- Introduction: Women, religion, and space--making the connections / Karen M. Morin and Jeanne Kay Guelke -- Women in colonial regimes. Repression of Muslim women's movements in colonial East Africa / Jennifer Kopf ; Conversion of native and slave women in Dutch colonial South Africa : from assimilation to apartheid / Leonard Guelke -- Religion & women's mobility. Gender, religion, and urban management : women's bodies and everyday lives in Jerusalem / Tovi Fenster ; A feminist geography of veiling : gender, class, and religion in the making of modern subjects and public spaces in Istanbul / Banu Gökarıksel ; In the lady's seat : cosmopolitan women travelers in Pakistan / Kathryn Besio -- New spaces for religious women. Missionary women in early America : prospects for a feminist geography / Jeanne Kay Guelke and Karen M. Morin ; Korean immigrant women to Los Angeles : religious space, transformative space? / HaeRan Shin -- Afterword / Anna Secor.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 173-199) and index.
LCCN 2007002078
ISBN9780815631163 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0815631162 (pbk. : alk. paper)