Gender and Self in Islam Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Note     xi
Introduction     1
About the book     2
Philosophy as a method of inquiry into gender and self     5
The contents of the book     14
Gender thinking and the system it produces     16
The roots of the hierarchical and egalitarian gender systems     17
Gender and power difference in the family     32
Conclusion     44
The creation theories as the bases for ontological self and inclusive humanity     46
The creation of Adam and the making of humanity     48
Equality in human origin     61
Ontology and human equality     65
Conclusion     70
The transmission of generative self and women's contribution to conception     72
Female's roles in conception: an Islamic philosophical view and its Greek heritage     74
The politics of gender and reproduction in the post-Ibn Sinan period     82
The stages of fetal development: a Qur'anic view     86
Conclusion     92
The embodiment of masculinity and femininity: the making of material self     94
The narrative of the self and the making of material self     96
The formativity of material self     102
Conclusion     115
The performance of the self: engendering dependency and pleasures     117
The construction of the ethics and psychology of the self     118
Extensional and reciprocal dependency     123
The "Embodied Self," the truth of sex and pleasures     133
Conclusion     139
Conclusion     140
Glossary     147
Notes     149
Bibliography     177
Index     189