| Description |
xxix, 200 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
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 -- 9. The Economic Basis of Sexual Anomie in Morocco -- Conclusion: Women's Liberation in Muslim Countries |
| Summary |
From the writing of her first book, Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society in 1975, Mernissi has sought to reclaim the ideological discourse on women and sexuality from the stranglehold of patriarchy. She critically examines the classical corpus of religious-juristic texts, including the Hadith, and reinterprets them from a feminist perspective. In her view, the Muslim ideal of the silent, passive, obedient woman has nothing to do with the authentic message of Islam. Rather, it is a construction of the 'ulama', the male jurists-theologians who manipulated and distorted the religious texts in order to preserve the patriarchal system. Mernissi's work explores the relationship between sexual ideology, gender identity, sociopolitical organization, and the status of women in Islam; her special focus, however, is Moroccan society and culture. As a feminist, her work represents an attempt to undermine the ideological and political systems that silence and oppress Muslim women |
| Notes |
Previous edition: Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Pub. Co., 1975 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index |
| Subject |
Muslim women.
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Sex customs -- Morocco.
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Women -- Morocco -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Morocco.
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| LC no. |
86046034 |
| ISBN |
0253204232 (paperback) |
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0253311624 |
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