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41 Articles about practices affecting Islamic Women and their sexuality, ranging from scholarly to personal. If you are from the West, this is an amazingly thoughtful explanation of practices treating women as livestock; and how, from men's viewpoint, this is proper, honorable and conservative ... for human rights, these practices need to change or be eliminated; the most effective step towards change/elimination will be outgrowing the traditional extended patriarchal family, and moving to a Western-type atomic family, which will immediately break the control and insanely obsessive over-scrutiny of women, while freeing men from a social construction of honor (performed for other men) that mainly depends on controlling women. PART 1: ISLAM, SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL POLITICS (8 articles)PART 2. PLEASURE, DESIRE AND LOVE (9 articles)PART 3. VIRGINITY, MARRIAGE & CONTROL OF WOMEN'S SEXUALITY (4 articles): Islamic societies view women's virginity as assets controlled by men. Girl children are tolerated because they will bring a bride price (income) to the family, but only if the girl is a virgin at marriage, which typically occurs at age 14-16 in rural areas. Men are permitted up to 4 perma

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Author

Pinar Ilkkaracan

Publisher

WWHR/KIHP

Published

2000

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Islamic History, Humanities