Locating Maldivian Women's Mosques in Global Discourses

• Main Author: Fewkes, Jacqueline H. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Ethnography.; Religion and sociology.; Gender identity-Religious aspects.; Ethnology-Asia.; Islam.; Social Anthropology.; Sociology of Religion.; Religion and Gender.; Asian Culture.

In this ethnographic examination of women's mosques in the Maldives, anthropologist Jacqueline H. Fewkes probes how the existence of these separate buildings-where women lead prayers for other women-intersect with larger questions about gender, space, and global Muslim communities. Bringing tog...