The house of obedience: women in Arab society
ISBN: 9780862320126
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / Zed Books
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Women''s Studies;

The House of Obedience is about women in the Arab world who are still largely subject to a traditional set of beliefs and customs employed to justify a multiplicity of practices against them. The veil, physical mutilation, forced marriage, incarceration in the home, repudiation and polygamy are manifestations of this commitment to a traditional lifestyle, with the Islamic concept of the family as its keystone.


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