Women and Islamic revival in a West African town [electronic resource] /
Adeline Masquelier.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.
- xxviii, 343 p.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Muslim women--Social conditions.--Niger--Dogondoutchi Women--Social conditions.--Niger--Dogondoutchi Islam--Niger--Dogondoutchi.