Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society by Fatema Mernissi

Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society

Fatema Mernissi

200 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction feminism religion challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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A study of sexual inequality in Muslim society. It argues that the Islamic view of women as active sexual beings resulted in a stricter regulation and control of women's sexuality, which Muslim theorists classically regarded as a threat to civiliz...

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