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

by Karen M. Morin, Jeanne Guelke

Overview

This volume studies females who practice or interact with gender norms of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in relation to the geography of place. The book focuses on attempts by religious and secular authorities to control women's access to distinct spaces to show how religious women navigate harsh terrain and attain mobility within established institutions. The writings are grouped under three sections: "Women and Colonial Regimes," "Religion and Women's Mobility," and "New Spaces for Religious Women."

Secular, critical, and comparative viewpoints are explored, with much of the scholarship steeped in fieldwork, i.e., an orthodox district in Jerusalem, a shopping mall in Istanbul, women travelers in Pakistan, and Korean immigrant women in Los Angeles. Contributors broaden notions of space to extend beyond architecture, national borders, external and internal boundaries, and assorted identifying markers, such as race or clothing. In examining a "new" aspect of space/geography these essays promote challenge, irony, and unexpected avenues of thought. Multi-cultural and international in scope, this work makes a significant, groundbreaking contribution to the field of geography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815631163
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2007
Series:	Space, Place, and Society Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Illustrations     vii
Contributors     ix
Preface   Karen M. Morin     xiii
Introduction: Women, Religion, and Space-Making the Connections   Karen M. Morin   Jeanne Kay Guelke     xix
Women in Colonial Regimes
Repression of Muslim Women's Movements in Colonial East Africa Jennifer Kopf     3
Conversion of Native and Slave Women in Dutch Colonial South Africa: From Assimilation to Apartheid   Leonard Guelke     22
Religion & Women's Mobility
Gender, Religion, and Urban Management: Women's Bodies and Everyday Lives in Jerusalem   Tovi Fenster     41
A Feminist Geography of Veiling: Gender, Class, and Religion in the Making of Modern Subjects and Public Spaces in Istanbul   Banu Gokariksel     61
In the Lady's Seat: Cosmopolitan Women Travelers in Pakistan   Kathryn Besio     81
New Spaces for Religious Women
Missionary Women in Early America: Prospects for a Feminist Geography   Jeanne Kay Guelke   Karen M. Morin     105
Korean Immigrant Women to Los Angeles: Religious Space, Transformative Space?   HaeRan Shin     127
Afterword   Anna Secor     148
Notes     161
References     173
Index     201