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 McMahon, Erin Stiles, and Katrina Daly Thompson
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