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Can I read Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Muslim Society on EtoBox?
Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Muslim Society by Fatema Mernissi is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Muslim Society about?
Does Islam as a religion oppress women? Is Islam against democracy? In this classic study, internationally renowned sociologist Fatema Mernissi argues that women's oppression is not due to Islam because this religion celebrates women's power. Women's oppression, she maintains, is due to political manipulation of religion by power-seeking, archaic Muslim male elites. Mernissi explains that early Muslim scholars portrayed women as aggressive hunters who forced men, reduced to weak hunted victims,
Who reads Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Muslim Society?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Fatema Mernissi
- Publisher
- Saqi Books
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780863564123
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Fiction, Women'S Studies, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25