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• Publisher : Basic Books
• File Size : 33,5 Mb
• Release Date : 21 December 1992

Convinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite, Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of

• Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• File Size : 46,9 Mb
• Release Date : 22 July 1991

Mernissi endeavors to show that discrimination against women, so common in the Muslim world today, is not a fundamental tenet of Islam as many contemporary male Muslims would like us

• Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• File Size : 44,5 Mb
• Release Date : 22 July 1991

Mernissi endeavors to show that discrimination against women, so common in the Muslim world today, is not a fundamental tenet of Islam as many contemporary male Muslims would like us

• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• File Size : 43,8 Mb
• Release Date : 22 April 1987

From the writing of her first book, Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society in 1975, Mernissi has sought to reclaim the ideological discourse on women and sexuality from

• Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
• File Size : 35,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2010

Until now the bulk of the literature about the veil has been written by outsiders who do not themselves veil. This literature often assumes a condescending tone about veiled women,

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 46,8 Mb
• Release Date : 16 September 2001

Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When

• Publisher : Hachette UK
• File Size : 34,7 Mb
• Release Date : 05 March 2009

Is Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In this now-classic book, Islamic sociologist Fatima Mernissi explores the ways

• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• File Size : 40,7 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 1993

Mernissi recounts the extraordinary stories of fifteen queen s and reflects on the implications for the ways in which politics is practiced in Islam today, a world in which women

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 17 June 1996

The book first explores some of the concrete issues fundamental to status of Muslim women, such as the production of statistics which mask women's contribution to the economies of Arab

• Publisher : Hachette UK
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 25 August 2015

In the era of #metoo, a clear-eyed, sharp look at rape culture, sexual assault, harassment and violence against women--and what we can do about it. "A timely and brilliant book." (