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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

Geraldine Brooks

What are the lives of Muslim women really like across the Middle East, and how do religion, custom and law shape them?

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Author
Geraldine Brooks

Why read it

  • You will see Muslim women through their own stories, from converts to a queen, and not only through the veil
  • You will learn to question dogma when it is used to limit what women may do
  • You will learn to listen to people whose beliefs differ from yours without giving up your own

Who it is for

  • A traveller or professional heading to the Middle East
  • A reader tired of one sided pictures of Muslim women
  • A writer who wants to report on cultures not their own

Contents

  1. A NOTE ON SPELLING
  2. PROLOGUE
  3. Chapter 1
  4. THE HOLY VEIL
  5. Chapter 2
  6. WHOM NO MAN SHALL HAVE DEFLOWERED BEFORE THEM
  7. Chapter 3
  8. HERE COME THE BRIDES
  9. Chapter 4
  10. THE PROPHET’S WOMEN
  11. Chapter 5
  12. CONVERTS
  13. Chapter 6
  14. JIHAD IS FOR WOMEN, TOO
  15. Chapter 7
  16. A QUEEN
  17. Chapter 8
  18. THE GETTING OF WISDOM
  19. Chapter 9
  20. RISKY BUSINESS
  21. Chapter 10
  22. POLITICS, WITH AND WITHOUT A VOTE
  23. Chapter 11
  24. MUSLIM WOMEN’S GAMES
  25. Chapter 12
  26. A DIFFERENT DRUMMER
  27. CONCLUSION: BEWARE OF THE DOGMA

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