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Nine Parts of Desire : The Hidden World of Islamic Women
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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 - Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1995-12-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP84748299
  • 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)
  • 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.

From the publisher

Geraldine Brooks is a native of Australia and a graduate of Sydney University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Virginia with her husband, Tony Horwitz. This is her first book.

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Media reviews

“Frank, enraging, and captivating.”
—The New Yorker

“Powerful and enlightening...Brooks presents stunning vignettes of Muslim women...and carefully distinguishes misogyny and oppressive cultural traditions from what she considers the true teachings of the Koran.”
—Publishers Weekly

“There has been nothing finer on the subject from a Western observer...she looks at it from the heart...mixing historical perspective with piercingly observed journalism.”
—Newsday

“Avoids both the sensational and the stereotypical...insightful...a valid, entertaining account of women in the Muslim world.”
—New York Times Book Review

“A rare look at a significant segment of the world's population that literally has been cloaked in mystery for generations.”
—Seattle Times

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 11/27/1995, Page 0

About the author

Geraldine Brooks is the author of four novels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Marchand the international bestsellers Caleb's Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Her most recent novel, Caleb's Crossing, was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Christianity TodayBook Award, and was a finalist for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha's Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz. This is her first book.

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