Creative conformity [electronic resource] : the feminist politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women / Elizabeth M. Bucar.
Series: Moral traditions seriesPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 201 p.)ISBN:- 9781589017528 (electronic bk.)
- 1589017528 (electronic bk.)
- 305.48/68273 22
- HQ1206 .B795 2011eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Note on transcriptions -- Prologue -- Introduction: Creative conformity, clerical guidance, and a rhetorical turn -- 1. What's a good woman to do? Recasting the symbolics of moral exemplars -- 2. Surprises from the laps of mothers: leveraging the gaps in procreative virtues -- 3. Scripture, sacred law, and hermeneutics: exploring gendered meanings in textual records -- 4. Performance beyond the pulpit: presenting disorderly bodies in public spaces -- 5. Republication of moral discourse: compromise and censorship as political freedom -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Revisiting Shahla Habibi.
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