Browse our collection of expert-reviewed feminism books, rated and recommended by the Editors Reads team.
2 expert-reviewed books
by Fatema Mernissi
Mernissi's most scholarly work — a feminist reading of Islamic sacred texts arguing that the veil and the seclusion of women were political decisions made by the male elite in the early Islamic period, not divine commandments.
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by Fatema Mernissi
Fatema Mernissi explores the different versions of Scheherazade that Western and Eastern cultures have created — arguing that the Western harem fantasy reveals more about Western fears than about Eastern reality.
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