TY  - BOOK
AU  - Masquelier,Adeline Marie
TI  - Women and Islamic revival in a West African town
SN  - 9780253353665 (cloth : alk. paper)
U1  - 305.48/697096626 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Niger
KW  - Dogondoutchi
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women
KW  - ISLAM
KW  - Dogondoutchi (Niger)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index; Gender and Islam in Dogondoutchi -- "Those who pray": religious transformations in the colonial and early postcolonial period -- Debating Muslims, disputed practices: the new public face of Islam -- When charisma comes to town: Malam Awal or the making of a modern saint -- Building a mosque in the home of a spirit: changing topographies of power and piety -- How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth, and women's value -- Fashioning Muslimhood: dress, modesty, and the construction of the virtuous woman -- "The fart does not light the fire": "bad" women, "true" believers, and the reconfiguration of moral domesticity
ER  -