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Original Title:	Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
ISBN:	0385475772 (ISBN13: 9780385475778)
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

Geraldine Brooks

Paperback | Pages: 255 pages

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Title	:	Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Author	:	Geraldine Brooks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 255 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1995 by Anchor (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Religion. Islam. History. Feminism. Womens. Politics

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With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim women. Nine Parts of Desire is the story of Brooks' intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives. Defying our stereotypes about the Muslim world, Brooks' acute analysis of the world's fastest growing religion deftly illustrates how Islam's holiest texts have been misused to justify repression of women, and how male pride and power have warped the original message of a once liberating faith.

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Definitely worth reading, but do NOT listen to the audiobook narrated by the author. She is a good author, but not a good narrator. Dreary, let me just leave it at that...... The writing reflects that she is trained as a journalist. However, the book is rather unstructured and reads as a group of different stories. Story after story of different Muslim women's experiences in the Middle East in the early 90s. Even if it isn't totally up-to-date you have to understand the past to understand the



A very interesting book. As a whole I liked it, it was nicely written. I found the jumping from one country to another, from one occasion to another at times confusing, but the main reason I read this book (information about women and their role(s) in Islamic societies, I got that already :-)

Aaargh. I just wrote a bloody long review of this book then the ******* goodreads website ate it. Anyway, starting over...." Read, in the name of thy LordWho hath created all things, whoHath created man of congealed blood.Read, by thy most beneficent Lord,Who taught us the use of the pen,who teaches man that which he knoweth not."The Koran: The Chapter of Congealed BloodI have been living, working and travelling in the Middle East since I was nineteen years old. That's over eleven years now. In

This book was written in 1994, pre-9/11 and pre my interest in the Middle East. I mean I knew a little bit about a couple of countries, but not much. This book changes that. I had read Brooks book, Year of Wonders about the plague, and March, about the Civil War both excellent books, but I had no idea she was an accomplished journalist whom the Wall Street Journal had sent to the Middle East as a foreign correspondent and not for six month, but for 6 years. Her curiosity, open mindedness and

I want to give this 3 stars instead because it's dated and often rather condescending, but I am glad I read it and learned a lot.

Before reading this book, I remember looking at the woman who were completely covered by their berka and thinking how repressed they were. I felt sorry for the freedom they were denied. My landlord at the time gave me his copy and I although I was hesitant, I agreed to read it...and I am so glad I did! The book delves deep into the roots of the Muslim beliefs and allows an outsider to appreciate a custom we would otherwise know little about. I learned that most woman (interviewed) do not feel