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Nation Women Negotiating Islam - C. S'thembile West

Nation Women Negotiating Islam

Moving Beyond Boundaries in the Twentieth Century
Buch | Hardcover
234 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4237-0 (ISBN)
CHF 134,40 inkl. MwSt
Through untold stories of women in the social project of the Nation of Islam, this book reveals an activism of NOI women that sought to engage self-agency, despite classist, patriarchal, and sexist underpinnings.
Nation Women Negotiating Islam: Moving Beyond Boundaries in the Twentieth Century highlights that Black women modeled diverse ways of agency and executing their roles in the nation-building project of the Nation of Islam. Informants candidly discussed their roles as women who were members of the Nation family between 1955 and 2000. In their personal and collective struggles to maintain a revolutionary consciousness in their homes and community, Nation women demonstrated that women need not be and were not totally submissive to Black men, as they assumed respectable status as wife or mother. C. S'thembile West highlights that activism need not exclude motherhood or marriage and that the home constituted a “house of resistance,” as described in Angela Davis' seminal article, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves” (1971).

In sum, the role of Black women as mothers, teachers, and custodians of freedom consciousness had and has a significant impact on individual households and communities. Nation Women Negotiating Islam seeks to illuminate the intricate threads that connect Nation women as a critical component of the continuum of Black women's activism, despite disparate strategies.

C. S’thembile West is professor emerita at Western Illinois University.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One: Context for Women in the Nation

Chapter Two: Perceptions, Rules and Practices Among Nation Women

Chapter Three: Muslim Girls Training: Nation Women, Marriage and Family

Chapter Four: Nation Women, Children and Education

Chapter Five: Nation Ideological Formations and Women

Chapter Six: A Shared Continuum of Black Women’s Community Activism

Chapter Seven: Nation Women and Politics of Protection

Appendix

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 237 mm
Gewicht 526 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-7936-4237-0 / 1793642370
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-4237-0 / 9781793642370
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