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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
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Geraldine Brooks
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Nine Parts of Desire: The
To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow fail to do the job.
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month-the money gives the women at least a small degree of discretion in spending and the prestige that comes from contributing to the family budget.
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one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.
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We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It's another war, I think.
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They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.
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The lieutenant colonel wondered if the high scores reflected a defect in the newly built shooting range at the women's academy. To find out, he commandeered the men's academy shooting range and ordered the women to redo the test. There he watched in growing astonishment as bullet after bullet slammed home, right smack in the center of the target.
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In both cases, women are expected to sacrifice their comfort and freedom to service the requirements of male sexuality: either to repress or to stimulate the male sex urge."
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Wealthy women who wanted to keep fit maintained well-equipped gyms in their homes and hired personal trainers. The rest led completely sedentary lives.
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Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And
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She'd been married at twelve, before her menarche, and had been pregnant or lactating ever since.
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Such laws can be even more humiliating for older women. A widowed grandmother, for example, may have to rely on the permission of a grandson if he is her closest male relative.
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It's so easy for people like me"-a diplomat's son raised abroad and educated in America-"to be totally off base about this country and what it is ready to accept.
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