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Title: Both Right and Left Handed: Arab Women Talk About Their Lives by Bouthaina Shaaban ISBN: 0-253-20688-X Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book on the plight of arab women!!!!
Comment: Having lived and worked in two islamic-stronghold countries (Saudi Arabia and Malaysia) I have my own experientially acquired opinions about the lives of 'quiet desperation' that are lived by Muslim women. This book clearly shows that my own opinions are backed up by Arab women. I was mesmerized by the book so much that I actually read it twice. (Typically I read about 20 books a week, so for me to read a book twice, suggests the affect the book had on my intellect).
Personally, I agree with Ashley Montague, women are the superior sex, and men are scared of this fact, so they go out of their way to create 'religions' and institute cultures that subjugate women and keep them living in an unhappy state. Frankly, I think the only good man is a dead man (but I am perhaps more radical in my thinking than other women). What this book reveals is the commonality between women in all cultures, religions, societies. Men ALWAYS go out of their way to ensure that women are not allowed to enjoy the maximum fruits of their own labor (considering that most of the labor in the world is done by women).
I'm hoping that the author will update this book for today's societies. There is always the possibility that the younger generations (I am 58) are more enlightened and that younger women will not experience the pain and suffering their mothers, grandmothers and ancestral women have (but I doubt it!)
Read this book, and then pray for muslim women, indeed!, for women everywhere! Our day will come!!!
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting insider viewpoints
Comment: This book consists of a series of interviews with Arabic women in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Algeria. Because the women interviewed were personal contacts or contacts of contacts of the author, it almost comes across as snapshots in a personal photo album. Most of the women interviewed are leaders, women of prominence in their countries, or university professors like the author herself. The attitudes they express towards the state of women in their countries is remarkably similar, but the reader can't assume that these attitudes prevail in these countries because no attempt was made at trying to reach a representative sample of women. Nevertheless, the book is extremely interesting, informative, and thought-provoking. Many of the women interviewed point out the strength of women and their remarkable achievements during armed struggles. They rail against husbands who ignore their intellectual abilities and accomplishments while requiring them to be perfect house cleaners, cooks, and child care givers. A number of the women reflect that they themselves may be partly to blame in the way that they raise children, especially their sons. Almost universally, they are unhappy with their present state, but on the other hand, they would not want to have the lifestyle of European women. But do they understand the lives of European women any better than European women understand the lives of Arab women?
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Title: The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) by Sandra Cisneros ISBN: 0679734775 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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