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Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and Gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from Late Antiquity to the Eve of Modernity
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Julia Clancy-Smith re-examines the often misunderstood roles that women and gender have historically in shaping three of the world's main religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Isalm—viewed through the prism of narratives about sacred journey and pilgrimages.
Julia Clancy-Smith is an associate professor of history at the University of Arizona. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. She has published Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800–1904) (1994), which received three book awards; was co-editor of Domesticating the Empire: Gender, Race, and Family Life in the Dutch and French Empires (1998); and has been editor of North Africa, Islam, and the Mediterranean World from the Almoravids to the Algerian War (2001). She is co-editing a special issue of French Historical Studies devoted to the French Empire and completing a book on trans-Mediterranean settlement in nineteenth-century North Africa. She has another book underway on colonial education for girls in French North Africa. Her extended essay in comparative women/gender history and colonial cultures, “European Imperialism and Colonial Knowledge on Women in Islamic Cultures, c. 1750–1900,” is part of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures edited by Suad Joseph.
2006. 56 pagesISBN 0-87229-140-5
Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and Gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from Late Antiquity to the Eve of Modernity
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