Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; New Introduction: Why Does the Veil Scare Europe?; Introduction: Roots of the Modern Situation; Part One: The Traditional Muslim View of Women and Their Place in the Social Order; 1. The Muslim Concept of Active Female Sexuality; 2. Regulation of Female Sexuality in the Muslim Social Order; 3. Sex and Marriage Before Islam; Part Two: Anomic Effects of Modernization on Male-Female Dynamics; 4. The Modern Situation: Moroccan Data; 5. Sexual Anomie As Revealed by the Data; 6. Husband and Wife; 7. The Mother-in-Law; 8. The Meaning of Spatial Boundaries.
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9. The Economic Basis of Sexual Anomie in Morocco 162Conclusion: Women's Liberation in Muslim Countries; Notes; Index.
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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 as this religion in fact celebrates women's power. Women's oppression, she maintains, is due to the political manipulation of religion by powerseeking, archaic Muslim male elites. Mernissi explains in her book that early Muslim scholars portrayed women as aggressive hunters who forced men, reduced to weak hunted victims, to control women by imposing requirements such as veiling, which confined women to.
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Beyond the Veil : MaleFemale Dynamics in Muslim Society.