Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
 

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

by Geraldine Brooks

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... (read more)

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Sarah O
  • Rated 5 stars

This book looks at some practices and ideas concerning women in various Muslim parts of the world, as told through the eyes of a western female journalist. It doesn't really delve into trying to explain these things culturally, which I would appreciate. After reading it, if you are an American woman, you will be so grateful for being born in this country and you might wonder why women are treated so differently elsewhere.

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Hope O
  • Rated 2 stars

My book club chose it. I read it and hated it.

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  • Rated 3.955224 stars
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  • Rated 3.5 stars
 

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  • antoinette d

    antoinette d said:

    I'm actually in the process of reading this book right now. It's very readable.....I wish it was more current

    posted Saturday, April 5 2008
  • antoinette d

    antoinette d said:

    I'm actually in the process of reading this book right now. It's very readable.....I wish it was more current

    posted Saturday, April 5 2008
  • Melissa E

    melissa e said:

    This is a great read. Very eye opening about lives of Muslim women

    posted Tuesday, January 8 2008
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