Nine parts of desire: the hidden world of Islamic women
Religion, Islam
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Portrait of an oppressed class slowly achieving some liberation. During a six-year Middle East assignment, a Western journalist wears the veil and mixes with Muslims in a quest to understand women in the Islamic world. Brooks talked with fundamentalists and… feminists, studied the Koran, witnessed surgical procedures to repair female genital mutilation, and gathered impressions of cultural traditions. 1995.
Title Details
Publisher
Anchor
Copyright Date
1995
Book number
2518447
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Carole Jordan Stewart
Duration
10 hours 10 minutes 19 seconds
Audio producer
Library of Congress, NLS/BPH (Louisville, KY : American Printing House for the Blind), 1996.