by Geraldine Brooks · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141029405
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«Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women» is Geraldine Brooks's essay, published by Penguin in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Brooks adopts the chador to approach Muslim women, interviews Queen Noor of Jordan and the daughter of former Iranian president Rafsanjani, and collects accounts from Palestinian women against honor killings and from young recruits in the Emirates. The result is a plural portrait that questions Western stereotypes.
This paperback edition, 272 pages and in English, was published by Penguin on February 22, 2007. It falls within gender studies, Islamic studies, and social sciences.
For readers interested in gender studies, the situation of women in Islam, and narrative non-fiction journalism.
Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2005 novel March.
