Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World, Newly Updated
In recent years, the expanding movement of militant Islam has changed the way millions think, behave, dress, and live, but nowhere has its impact been more powerfully felt than in its dramatic, often devastating effect on the lives of women. Award-winning journalist Jan Goodwin traveled through ten Islamic countries and interviewed hundreds of Muslim women, from professionals to peasants, from royalty to rebels. The result is an unforgettable journey into a world where women are...
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Based upon interviews conducted in ten Islamic countries, this book for the general reader describes the daily oppression experienced by women living under fundamentalist rule. Journalist Goodwin reports on how women are submitting to or fighting against such practices as polygamy, arranged child marriages and the wearing of the chador. The volume does not contain bibliographical references. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Publishers Weekly Journalist Goodwin travels to 10 countries to interview Muslim women who reveal how their oppressive and confining political systems have affected their lives. (Aug.)
AcknowledgmentsCh. lFundamentally Different?3Ch. 2Muslims, the First Feminists29Ch. 3Pakistan: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back47Ch. 4Afghanistan: "When You Can't Beat the Donkey, Beat the Saddle"73Ch. 5Iran: "There Is No Fun in Islam"99Ch. 6United Arab Emirates : The Playground of the Gulf125Ch. 7Kuwait: A War of Independence148Ch. 8Muslim Missionaries, American Converts174Ch. 9Saudi Arabia: The Custodians of the Two Holiest Places198Ch. 10Iraq: A Nation of Fear224Ch. 11Jordan: When Islam Is the Solution250Ch. 12Israeli-Occupied Territories: Next Year in Jerusalem277Ch. 13Egypt: The Mother of the World308Ch. 14Epilogue338Index345
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ Journalist Goodwin travels to 10 countries to interview Muslim women who reveal how their oppressive and confining political systems have affected their lives. (Aug.)\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalIn this astonishing book, the product of four years of living in the Islamic world, journalist Goodwin ( Caught in the Crossfire , LJ 3/15/82) examines the movement that is aggressively spreading a fundamentalist version of Islam throughout much of the world. Her interviews with Muslim women in ten countries both fascinate and disturb, for their candor reveals the movement's profound and often devastating effects on them. Maintaining that Muslims understand the West far better than Westerners understand Islam, Goodwin warns against the Western ethnocentrism that could jeopardize both security and energy resources. Instead, she urges greater understanding of ``the world's fastest growing religion'' and of its treatment of women, who ``are the wind sock showing which way the wind is blowing in the Islamic world''--or as one interviewee put it, ``the canaries in the mines.'' The work itself enhances this understanding. A necessary purchase.-- Cynthia Widmer, Downingtown, Pa.\ \ \ BooknewsJournalist Goodwin interviewed women from all walks of life in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Gaza and the West Bank of Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates in pursuit of understanding the heavily restricted lives of women under Islam. She shows how the repressive politics that govern women's personal lives are also a barometer to the growth of fundamentalism and the Muslim regimes' willingness to appease extremists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
