TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bucar,Elizabeth M.
TI  - Creative conformity: the feminist politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i women 
T2  - Moral traditions series
SN  - 9781589017528
AV  - HQ1206 .B795 2011eb
U1  - 305.48/68273 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Georgetown University Press
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Iran
KW  - Women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Catholic women
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Shiites
KW  - Féminisme
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Activité politique
KW  - Femmes catholiques
KW  - Musulmanes
KW  - Chiites
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - fast
KW  - homoit
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Gender
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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