In this study of sexual/gender politics in Islamic society, the author draws on popular source materials to explore the disorienting effect of modernization on Muslim male-female relations and shows us the sexual dynamics of the Muslim world.
"Sexual inequality is a prominent feature of both Western and Islamic societies, but the underlying concepts of female sexuality in Christian and Muslim traditions are very different; the pattern of heterosexual relations in Muslim societies is probably unique." "Fatima Mernissi…
Mernissi explores the historical links between the religion of Islam, the societal oppression of women, and the suppression of democracy in predominantly Muslim nations
In this study of sexual/gender politics in Islamic society, the author draws on popular source materials to explore the disorienting effect of modernization on Muslim male-female relations and shows us the sexual dynamics of the Muslim world.
In this study of sexual/gender politics in Islamic society, the author draws on popular source materials to explore the disorienting effect of modernization on Muslim male-female relations and shows us the sexual dynamics of the Muslim world.
"Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege preven…
Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent…
"Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege preven…
By bringing together and examining a diverse body of literature from the Arab and Persian worlds of the eighth to the thirteenth centuries, Louise Marlow explores the tension that existed between the traditional egalitarian ideas of early Islam and the hierarchical impulses of t…
By bringing together and examining a diverse body of literature from the Arab and Persian worlds of the eighth to the thirteenth centuries, Louise Marlow explores the tension that existed between the traditional egalitarian ideas of early Islam and the hierarchical impulses of t…
