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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 305.486971 EAN 9780452283770 ISBN 0452283779 Manufacturer Plume Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 368 Publication Date December 31, 2002 Publisher Plume Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description A look at the treatment of Muslim women in the Islamic world describes the increasing repressive politics that govern their personal lives and how they are confined, isolated, and even killed to protect ''male honor.'' 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Spurred by her experiences as a young girl's mentor in Pakistan, American journalist Goodwin ( Caught in the Crossfire ) here surveys 10 countries in the Islamic world, interviewing hundreds of women and many men, concluding that the treatment of women is a barometer of the twin forces of modernity and Islamic extremism. Her book is solidly researched (she relates that Islam originally enhanced women's rights) and stylishly written, though her dependence on long quotes makes a few sections ponderous. Some of her stories are shocking: the sad fate of a girl bartered in marriage at age 11; the sexual abuse in jail of numerous women in Pakistan arrested for sex outside marriage ; the death threat against a Jordanian television commentator who criticized a smear campaign against women. Goodwin's account also includes thoughtful interviews with an Afghan resistance leader trying to use Islam to fight fundamentalism and an American-educated woman in the United Arab Emirates trying to balance freedom and faith. Goodwin suggests that the United States, overly dependent on imported oil, should beware of Islam's growing fundamentalism. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. In 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. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Goodwin set out to investigate the status of women in 10 Islamic countries after being shocked and appalled at the brutal treatment of a nine-year-old girl she befriended while living in Peshawar, a frontier town on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her findings are profoundly disturbing and center on the enormous influence of radical Islamic fundamentalists, who have created a system of 'gender apartheid' that has turned women into virtual prisoners. After providing deft descriptions of the current atmosphere in each country, she relates shocking stories of restriction, cruelty, abuse, and violence. Most Islamic women now live severely circumscribed lives. They are forbidden to go out without male chaperons and face harsh jail terms, or even death, for such 'crimes' as failing to be fully concealed in a chador or other heavy, dark garments. Worse, of course, are the frequent beatings and rapes, many committed by the police. Men can divorce their wives secretly and are free to have several wives, while women are kept cloistered at home, suffering from depression and a host of ailments associated with lack of sunshine and exercise. This tragic state of affairs is all the more maddening given the fact than none of the more flagrant abuses have any basis in the Koran, which teaches respect for women as equal and invaluable partners in Muslim society. Goodwin takes pains to present balanced and well-documented information, making her revelations all the more alarming. Donna Seaman Chilling account of oppressive policies instituted against women in the Islamic world. Though select women in countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Egypt, and Pakistan ``lift the veil of silence'' here to speak out against Islamic law, Goodwin focuses on the vast majority of Muslim women, who--willingly or not--are lowering the veil over their faces and lives. In much of the Middle East, egalitarian strides made between the 50s' and 70's have been reversed in the past 20 years of surging conservative Islamic movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and in this atmosphere women are singled out as potential sources of corruption. In Pakistan, for example, nurses are frequently accused of being immoral because they must work at night and care for male patients. All female government employees are ordered to wear Islamic dress, including chadors, which cover the head and most of the body. And while ``rapists are allowed to go free...women victims are prosecuted.'' Most Muslim women, contends Goodwin, are given fewer rights than the Koran is designed to give them. While women must be virgins when married, men are encouraged to be polygamous: ``Hefty financial inducements are offered, and women themselves are encouraged personally to select another wife for their husbands.'' The few who speak out against such policies risk unemployment, isolation, or even death. With disturbingly graphic detail, Goodwin documents cruelties visited on Muslim women--using skills similar to those she employed in covering Russian atrocities against Afghans in Caught in the Crossfire (1987). Despite shrill polemics in an anti-Israel chapter: a significant book that gives a voice to millions of silent and silenced Muslim women. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. A look at the treatment of Muslim women in the Islamic world describes the increasing repressive politics that govern their personal lives and how they are confined, isolated, and even killed to protect ''male honor.'' 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Customers who bought this item also bought Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women Burned Alive: A Survivor of an "Honor Killing" Speaks Out My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom Customer Reviews for: Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World, Newly updated Rating - NL I ordered this book at a discount price. It appeared in a very timely manner. I have not had a chance to read yet as I ordered many books at that time. Very happy with purchase. Rating - Putting our own house in order Muslim women pay a high price for their (and their male family members') honor. This book details the trials and tribulations of women in the Muslim world. The prejudice, discrimination and crimes it describes can all be found here in the west. I suggest that the problem is patriarchy, not Islam. Focusing on a particular religion lets all the rest of us off the hook. This book is helpful if it makes me think about how often ... Read More Rating - The book has never been more relevant I highly recommend this book. Jan Goodwin provides in an engaging, superbly reported look at the present-day treatment of women in countries still bound by the strictures of medieval Islamic law. Though the book was written in 1995, and updated after 9/11, its relevance has never been greater than it is today as we struggle to understand the increasingly dangerous world we live in. Above all, "Price ... Read More Rating - Interesting book but with a bit of whitewashing.. In 1989 I lived in Cairo, Egypt for several months. Being female I experienced (and witnessed) a good deal of the typical misogynistic behavior one would expect from a Muslim male. I could never understand how the Islamic communities I visited could be so mistrustful and even outwardly angry with women just for the sake of being women. I have been fascinated with learning more every since. Goodwin writes very interesting and detailed accounts ... Read More see more reviews See all books by author Jan Goodwin

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