The first chapter is a combination of author's thoughts and comparative examination on the traditional Muslim view of women and their place in social order. In the second chapter, a survey which was conducted among Moroccan women and some data obtained from listener letters of a counseling radio program are analyzed. In the first part, she examines the Muslim concept of active female sexuality and compares it with the pacifist Freudian theory. She quotes from Imam Ghazali's writings on marriage on his Revification of Religious Sciences . She sees the fear of female sexuality in these conclusions and supports her theory with examples from Morroccan folklore and hadiths on the subject.
Muslim theory views civilization as the outcome of satisfied sexual energy.
She looks at the pre-Islamic Arabic society, different types of marital unions, rules and regulations of such unions. In the second part, Mernissi examines two groups of women. She also includes the letters addressed to a qadi who councels masses through a radio program with his answers to questions, Qadi Moulay Mustapha Alaoui. We can therefore assume that the umma is male believers. Individuals of both sexes as primarily sexual beings.