The history of women's mosques in Chinese Islam : a mosque of their own / Maria Jaschok and Shui Jingjun.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-354) and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART I: Introduction -- I A Mosque Of Their Own: Muslim Women, Chinese Islam -- and Sexual Equality -- PART II: From the Margins of Memory -- II Scholarly Debates: Islamic Faith, Innovation (bid'a) and -- Constructs of Femininity -- III The Beginnings and History of a Female Religious Culture -- IV Growth and Expansion of Women's Mosques and Schools -- PART III: Women's Mosques, Nu Ahong and their Religious -- Culture -- V 'Look Not at the Evil and Hear It Not' -- From Ancient Persian -- Canons to Contemporary Female Sexuality -- VI 'The Road to Allah's Commandments' -- Conflicts of Loyalty -- under Chinese State Law -- VII From Dependence to Independence: Women's Mosques, Islamic -- Patriarchy and the State -- PART IV: Claiming Heaven -- VIII Between Allah and Modernity: Re/Engendering the Past -- IX Xiuti; 'From Head to Toe' -- Shaming and Concealing the Body -- X The Feminisation of Purgatory: Mediating Spiritual Faith and -- Equality -- PART V: Chinese Muslim Women: Communitas, Choices, and -- Conversion -- XI Aisha, A Chronicle of Conversion and Collective Survival -- XII Lives and Testimonies: Living in God's Shadow -- Yang Huizhen Ahong, Social Activist in Zhejiang -- Ba Ahong, Henan, Preserving Female Religious Tradition -- Yang Yinlian Ahong, Harbin, Heilongjiang: My Work -- Report -- Daughters-in-Law in an Ahong's Family, Recalled -- by Shui Zhiying -- Epilogue -- Appendix I Profiles of Two Leading Women's Mosques and their -- Religious Leadership -- Appendix II Nusi in the Republican Era (1912-1949) -- Appendix III Questioning Hui and Han Women and Men on -- Quality of Life (Survey) -- Appendix IV Unpublished Documentation on Central China's -- Muslim Culture and Women's Lives (lodged with -- Henan Provincial Library, Zhengzhou, Henan Province) -- Glossary.