05542cam a2200745Ii 4500 ocn925783283 OCoLC 20200709060419.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 151021s2015 ohu ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T N$T YDXCP EBLCP OCLCO DEBSZ 9780821445433 electronic bk. 082144543X electronic bk. 9780821421864 0821421867 9780821421871 0821421875 082144543X (OCoLC)925783283 f-tz--- HQ1798.5.Z8 Z3635 2015eb SOC 031000 bisacsh SOC 020000 bisacsh 305.409678/1 23 SOC032000 REL037000 REL000000 bisacsh MAIN Gendered lives in the western Indian Ocean : Islam, marriage, and sexuality on the Swahili Coast / edited by Erin E. Stiles and Katrina Daly Thompson. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Indian Ocean studies series 1. Schoolgirls and Women Teachers: Colonial Education and the Shifting Boundaries between Girls and Women in Zanzibar / Corrie Decker -- 2. The Value of a Marriage: Missionaries, Ex-slaves, and the Legal Debates over Marriage in Colonial Pemba Island / Elisabeth McMahon -- 3. Two Weddings in Northern Mafia: Changes in Women's Lives since the 1960s / Pat Caplan -- 4. Pleasure and Danger: Muslim Views on Sex and Gender in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- 5. Sex and School on the Southern Swahili Coast: Adolescent Sexuality in the Context of Expanding Education in Rural Mtwara, Tanzania / Meghan Halley -- 6. Learning to Use Swahili Profanity and Sacred Speech: The Embodied Socialization of a Muslim Bride in Zanzibar Town / Katrina Daly Thompson -- 7. Pleasure and Prohibitions: Reflections on Gender, Knowledge, and Sexuality in Zanzibar Town / Kjersti Larsen -- 8. Unsuitable Husbands: Allegations of Impotence in Zanzibari Divorce Suits / Erin E. Stiles -- 9. Forming and Performing Swahili Manhood: Wedding Rituals of a Groom in Lamu Town / Rebecca Gearhart -- 10. Spirit Possession and Masculinity in Swahili Society / Linda L. Giles -- 11. Being a Good Muslim Man: Modern Aspirations and Polygynous Intentions in a Swahili Muslim Village / Susi Krehbiel Keefe -- Afterword: Understanding Gendered Lives through Intimate and Global Perspectives / Susan F. Hirsch -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- Index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. Women Tanzania Zanzibar Social conditions. Muslim women Tanzania Zanzibar Social conditions. Family life Tanzania Zanzibar. Tanzania Social conditions. Sex Religious aspects Islam. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. bisacsh RELIGION / Islam / General. bisacsh RELIGION / General. bisacsh Muslim women Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01031015 Sex Religious aspects Islam. fast (OCoLC)fst01114203 Women Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01176947 Tanzania Zanzibar. fast (OCoLC)fst01250037 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies bisacsh Electronic books. Electronic books. Stiles, Erin E., editor. Thompson, Katrina Daly, 1975- editor. Print version: Gendered lives in the western Indian Ocean 9780821421864 (DLC) 2015026449 (OCoLC)911069610 Indian Ocean studies series. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1083016 EBSCOhost EBSC 1083016 YBP Library Services YANK 12656578 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL4006733 92 N$T 56552 56552