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Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition Fatima Mernissi

Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition By Fatima Mernissi

Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition by Fatima Mernissi


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In this expanded and updated edition, with a new introduction on Muslim women and fundamentalism, Mernissi argues that Islamic fundamentalism is in part a defense against recent changes in sex roles and perceptions of sexual identity.

Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition Summary

Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society by Fatima Mernissi

Required reading . . . -Elizabeth Fernea, The University of Texas at Austin

If a reader were to select only one book in order to gain insight into women's status and prospects in Islamic society, this study should be the one chosen for its clarity, honesty, depth of knowledge and thought-provoking qualities. -Arab Book World

In this expanded and updated edition, with a new introduction on Muslim women and fundamentalism, Mernissi argues that Islamic fundamentalism is in part a defense against recent changes in sex roles and perceptions of sexual identity.

Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition Reviews

Required reading ... Elizabeth Fernea, University of Texas at Austin If a reader were to select only one book in order to gain insight into women's status and prospects in Islamic society, this study should be the one chosen for its clarity, honesty, depth of knowledge and thought-provoking qualities. Arab Book World

Table of Contents

Muslim Women and Fundamentalism: Introduction to the Revised Edition
Preface: A Note to the Western Reader
Introduction: Roots of the Modern Situation

Part One The Traditional Muslim View of Women and Their Place in the Social Order

1. The Muslim Concept of Active Female Sexuality
2. Regulation of Female Sexuality in the Muslim Social Order
3. Sex and Marriage Before Islam

Part Two Anomic Effects of Modernization on Male-Female Dynamics

4. The Modern Situation: Moroccan Data
5. Sexual Anomie As Revealed by the Data
6. Husband and Wife
7. The Mother-in-Law
8. The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries
9. The Economic Basis of Sexual Annomie in Moroco

Conclusion: Women's Liberation in Muslim Countries

Notes
Suggested Supplementary Reading Compiled by Mary Jo Lakeland
Index

Additional information

GOR004942361
9780253204233
0253204232
Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society by Fatima Mernissi
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Indiana University Press
19870422
224
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