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Title: Nine Parts of Desire
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Narrator: Geraldine Brooks
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-27-12
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Nonfiction, Gender Issues
Summary:
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Womenis the story of Brooks 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 ayatollahs widowand discovers that Mrs. Khomeini dyes her hair.
In 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.
In 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.Nine Parts of Desireis much more than a captivating work of firsthand reportage; it is also an acute analysis of the worlds fastest-growing religion, deftly illustrating how Islams 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.
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