Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Mernissi, Fatima.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Pub. Co. ; New York : distributed solely by Halsted Press, c1975.

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Description

xx, 132 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Alternative Title

Male-female dynamics in a modern Muslim society

Subject

• Muslim women
• Women > Morocco

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [127]-132.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface : for the western reader -- Introduction : The root of the modern situation -- Part One. The traditional Muslim view of women and their place in the social order : The Muslim concept of active female sexuality -- The regulation of female sexuality in the Muslim social order -- Part Two. The anomic effects of modernization on male-female dynamics : The modern situation : A description of the data -- Sexual anomie as revealed by the data -- Husband and wife -- The mother-in-law -- The meaning of spatial boundaries -- The economic basis of sexual anomie in modern Morocco -- Conclusion : Women's liberation in Muslim countries.

ISBN

• 0470596139
• 0470596120 0470596139

LCCN

^^^75029283^//r94

OCLC

• 855947901
• SCSB-11645557

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library