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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.advisor | Rothenberg, Celia | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hamed, Sara | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-18T20:28:46Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-11-18T20:28:46Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16410 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Using found poetry extracted from in-depth ethnographic interviews, this study seeks to explore the experiences and imaginations of eleven Muslim mothers of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), particularly focusing on their religio-educative, child-rearing roles. With strikingly spatial language, participants describe themselves in terms of heroines and poets, while also expressing overwhelming feelings of failure to fulfill self-defined “ideal” motherhood. Using poetic inquiry, this research moves beyond apparent paradoxes, offering the concept of poetic spaces –in-between spaces that are fluid and transformative, navigating everyday truths in relation to religious Truths- to demonstrate the complexity of mothers’ imaginations. This work is also part of a small yet growing line of inquiry, seeking to explore Muslim imagination from an aesthetic perspective, rather then through a predominantly legal lens. Within this small yet important area of inquiry, this work is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on Muslim mothers. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Islam | en_US |
dc.subject | Motherhood | en_US |
dc.subject | Education | en_US |
dc.title | "The Mother is a School": Muslim Mothers and Their Religio-Educative Roles | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Religious Studies | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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