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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women Paperback - 1995 - 1st Edition
by Brooks, Geraldine
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In this captivating book, award-winning journalist Geraldine Brooks offers an intimate, often shocking portrait of the lives of modern Muslim women, and shows how male pride and power have warped the original message of a once-liberating faith. "A valid, entertaining account of women in the Muslim world".--The New York Times Book Review.
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- Title Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
- Author Brooks, Geraldine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-12-01
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0385475772-4-19170187
- ISBN 9780385475778 / 0385475772
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.19 x 0.72 in (20.37 x 13.18 x 1.83 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical:
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Muslim women, Muslim women - Social conditions
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94017496
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.48
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Summary
With a New AfterwordAs a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim women. Nine Parts of Desire is the story of Brooks' intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives. Defying our stereotypes about the Muslim world, Brooks' acute analysis of the world's fastest growing religion deftly illustrates how Islam's holiest texts have been misused to justify repression of women, and how male pride and power have warped the original message of a once liberating faith.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Publishers Weekly, 11/27/1995, Page 0