Nine parts of desire: the hidden world of Islamic women
Religion, Islamisme
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Portrait of an oppressed class slowly achieving some liberation. During a six-year Middle East assignment, a Western journalist wears the veil and mixes with Muslims in a quest to understand women in the Islamic world. Brooks talked with fundamentalists and… feminists, studied the Koran, witnessed surgical procedures to repair female genital mutilation, and gathered impressions of cultural traditions. 1995.