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.
Contributors: Nadine Beckmann, Pat Caplan, Corrie Decker, Rebecca Gearhart, Linda Giles, Meghan Halley, Susan Hirsch, Susi Keefe, Kjersti Larsen, Elisabeth Mc Mahon, Erin Stiles, and Katrina Daly Thompson
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Glossary
- Introduction
Katrina Daly Thompson and Erin Stiles - Part One: Historical Transformations of Gender, Sexuality and Marriage
- 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 Mc Mahon - 3: Two Weddings in northern Mafia: Changes in Women’s Lives in the 1960s
Pat Caplan - Part Two: Contemporary Expressions of Coastal Femininity and Womanhood
- 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 - Part Three: Defining Masculinity in Ritual and Marriage
- 8: Unsuitable Husbands: Allegations of Impotence in Zanzibari Divorce Suits
Erin Stiles - 9: Forming and Performing Swahili Manhood: Wedding Rituals of a Lamu Town Groom
Rebecca Gearhart - 10: Spirit Possession and Masculinity in Swahili Society
Linda Giles - 11: Being “A Good Muslim Man”: Modern Aspirations and Polygynous Intentions in a Swahili Muslim Village
Susi Keefe - Afterword
Susan Hirsch - Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Über den Autor
Susan F. Hirsch is professor and the Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Chair at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. She is the author of Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and Discourse in an African Islamic Court, In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim’s Quest for Justice, and Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict.
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