Women, Religion, and Space - Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith

Studies women who practice or interact with the gender norms and spaces of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. This book focuses on questions of how and why religious and secular authorities seek to regulate women's mobility and access to particular spaces, and how religious women negotiate their agency and mobility within traditional institutions.

About the author

Karen M. Morin is associate professor of geography at Bucknell University. Her articles have appeared in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and Journal of Historical Geography.

Jeanne Kay Guelke is professor of geography at University of Waterloo, Ontario. Her articles have been published in The Professional Geographer, Journal of Historical Geography, and Environmental Ethics.

Summary

Studies women who practice or interact with the gender norms and spaces of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. This book focuses on questions of how and why religious and secular authorities seek to regulate women's mobility and access to particular spaces, and how religious women negotiate their agency and mobility within traditional institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Morin, Karen M. Guelke Morin, Karin M. (EDT)/ Guelke Morin
• Assisted by: Jeanne Guelke (Editor), Jeanne Kay Guelke (Editor), Karen M Morin (Editor), Karen M. Morin (Editor)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2007
• EAN: 9780815631163
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3116-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Space, Place, and Society (Pap; Space, Place, and Society (Pap; Space, Place and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories