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Reviving Ancient Traditions: A New Approach To The Emancipation Of Malian Women, Claire Crowley
Reviving Ancient Traditions: A New Approach To The Emancipation Of Malian Women, Claire Crowley
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Being immersed in a Malian family for over three months has given me an opportunity to observe and experience certain dynamics of the culture not afforded to the average traveller. It was this very experience which served to inspire this project, a diversion from my original research topic of polygamy. While the textbooks focused on the compliance and submission of Malian women, each day spent immersed in the culture and my family hinted at something more. My family’s lifeline and backbone are the women who manage the household; particularly my Maman and sister. While many acknowledge that Malian women carry …
Urf: Islamic Biomedical Ethics In Rural Mali, Amanda Reider
Urf: Islamic Biomedical Ethics In Rural Mali, Amanda Reider
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Anxious faces gather at the entrance to La Grande Mosquée de Sanankoroba, an imposing cement structure amongst small mud homes, awaiting the imam’s decision. He is not a mujtahid , but offers fatwas nonetheless; today’s is on birth control. Men crowd around—and a few women at the rear—to hear him speak out against birth control, against the use of oral contraception, for being against Islam and against God’s plan. And when his speech finishes, the faces disappear, back into their homes, and little discussion ensues. Instead, men return to their wives to share the verdict, to denounce family planning as …