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Beyond the veil : male-female dynamics in modern Muslim society / Fatima Mernissi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1987. Edition: Rev. ed., 1st Midland Book edDescription: 300 xxix, 200 p. ;|c22 cmISBN:
  • 0253204232 (pbk.)
  • 9780253204233 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Male-female dynamics in modern Muslim society
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ1170  .M46 1987
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.
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Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) General Circulation Non-fiction HQ1170 .M46 1987 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 063789
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Previous ed.: Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Pub. Co., 1975.

Includes bibliographical refrences and index.

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.

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