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Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Headscarves and Hymens Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution Author:Mona Eltahawy A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the Arab world, by an Egyptian American journalist and activist — When the Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy published an article�in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012 titled ?Why Do They Hate Us?? it provoked a firestorm of controversy. The response it generated, with�more than�four thousand posts on the ... more »website, broke all records for the magazine, prompted dozens of follow-up interviews on radio and television, and made it clear that misogyny in the Arab world is an explosive issue, one that engages and�often enrages the public.
���� In Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy takes her argument further. Drawing on her years as a campaigner and commentator on women?s issues in the Middle East, she explains that since the Arab Spring began, women in the Arab world have had two revolutions to undertake: one fought with men against oppressive regimes, and another fought against an entire political and economic system that treats women in countries from Yemen�and Saudi Arabia to�Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya�as second-class citizens.
���� Eltahawy has traveled across the Middle East and North Africa, meeting with women and listening to their stories.�Her book is a plea for outrage and action on their behalf, confronting the ?toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend.?�A manifesto motivated by hope and fury in equal measure, Headscarves and Hymens is as�illuminating as it is incendiary.« less
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