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Author Bucar, Elizabeth M.

Title Creative conformity : the feminist politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women / Elizabeth M. Bucar.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 201 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Moral traditions series
Moral traditions series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary Much feminist scholarship has viewed Catholicism and Shi'i Islam as two religious traditions that, historically, have greeted feminist claims with skepticism or outright hostility. Creative Conformity demonstrates how certain liberal secular assumptions about these religious traditions are only partly correct and, more importantly, misleading. In this highly original study, Elizabeth Bucar compares the feminist politics of eleven U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women and explores how these women contest and affirm clerical mandates in order to expand their roles within their religious communit.
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Subject Feminism -- Political aspects -- United States.
Feminism -- Political aspects.
United States.
Feminism -- Political aspects -- Iran.
Iran.
Women -- Political activity -- United States.
Women -- Political activity.
Women -- Political activity -- Iran.
Catholic women -- United States.
Catholic women.
Muslim women -- Iran.
Muslim women.
Shiites -- Political activity -- Iran.
Shiites -- Political activity.
Shiites.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Feminism.
Women's movement.
Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Bucar, Elizabeth M. Creative conformity. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2011 9781589017399 (DLC) 2010036032 (OCoLC)648934562
ISBN 9781589017528 (electronic book)
1589017528 (electronic book)
9781589017399
1589017390