Beyond the Veil: Male-female Dynamics in Modern Muslim SocietyIndiana University Press, 1987 - 200 pages 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. |
Table des matières
Introduction | vii |
A Note to the Western Reader | 7 |
Part One The Traditional Muslim View of Women | 25 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Beyond the Veil: Male-female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society Fatima Mernissi Affichage d'extraits - 1975 |
Beyond the Veil: Male-female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society Fatima Mernissi Affichage d'extraits - 1975 |
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