Beyond the Veil : Male-female Dynamics in a Muslim Society

Name: Beyond the Veil
Brand: Saqi Books
SKU: 9780863564123
Price: 3050 KES
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ISBN: 9780863564123

by Fatema Mernissi

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Saqi Essentials

ISBN-10 0863564127

ISBN-13 9780863564123

Publisher Saqi Books

Imprint Saqi Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 1st, 2011

Print length 197 Pages

Weight 250 grams

Dimensions 22.70 x 15.10 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups Gender studies: women and girls Social groups: religious groups and communities Gender studies: women Islamic studies

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Mernissi explores the historical links between the religion of Islam, the societal oppression of women, and the suppression of democracy in predominantly Muslim nations.

Does Islam as a religion oppress women? Is Islam against democracy? In this classic study, internationally renowned sociologist Fatema Mernissi argues that women''s oppression is not due to Islam because this religion celebrates women''s power. Women''s oppression, she maintains, is due to political manipulation of religion by power-seeking, archaic Muslim male elites. Mernissi explains that early Muslim scholars portrayed women as aggressive hunters who forced men, reduced to weak hunted victims, to control women by imposing institutions such as veiling, which confined women to the private space. In her new introduction, she argues that women''s aggressive invasion of the 500-plus Arab satellite channels in the twenty-first century, including as commanding show anchors, film and video stars, supports her theory that Islam as a religion celebrates female power.

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