Price of honor
Subtitle: Muslim women lift the veil of silence on the Islamic world
By: Jan Goodwin.
Publisher: Plume
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Muslim women; Middle East -- Social conditions
Description: Synopsis: Based upon interviews conducted in ten Islamic countries, this book for the general reader describes the daily oppression experienced by women living under fundamentalist rule. Journalist Goodwin reports on how women are submitting to or fighting against such practices as polygamy, arranged child marriages and the wearing of the chador.
Notes: Originally published : Boston : Little, Brown, 1994.
Includes index.