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100 1 $aBrooks, Geraldine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94041622
245 10 $aNine parts of desire :$bthe hidden world of Islamic women /$cGeraldine Brooks.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAnchor,$c[1995], ©1995.
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300 $a255 pages ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-247) and index.
520 $aNine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women is the story of Brook's 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. In fundamentalist Iran, Brooks finagles an invitation to tea with the ayatollah's widow - and discovers that Mrs. Khomeini dyes her hair.
520 8 $aIn Saudi Arabia, she eludes the severe segregation of the sexes and attends a bacchanal, laying bare the hypocrisy of this austere, male-dominated society. In war-torn Ethiopia, she watches as a female gynecologist repairs women who have undergone genital mutilation justified by a distorted interpretation of Islam.
520 8 $aIn villages and capitals throughout the Middle East, she finds that a feminism of sorts has flowered under the forbidding shroud of the chador as she makes other startling discoveries that defy our stereotypes about the Muslim world.
520 8 $aNine Parts of Desire is much more than a captivating work of firsthand reportage; it is also an acute analysis of the world's fastest-growing religion, deftly illustrating how Islam's holiest texts have been misused to justify the repression of women. It was, after all, the Shiite leader Ali who proclaimed that "God created sexual desire in ten parts, then gave nine parts to women."
650 0 $aMuslim women.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147398
650 0 $aMuslim women$xSocial conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108149
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