Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Explains powerfully how Muslim women are affected by the rise of fundamentalism.”—Dan Rather

In recent years, the expanding movement of militant Islam has changed the way millions think, behave, dress, and live, but nowhere has its impact been more powerfully felt than in its dramatic, often devastating effect on the lives of women. Award-winning journalist Jan Goodwin traveled through ten Islamic countries and interviewed hundreds of Muslim women, from professionals to peasants, from royalty to rebels.  The result is an unforgettable journey into a world where women are confined, isolated, even killed for the sake of a “code of honor” created and zealously enforced by men. 

Price of Honor brings to life a world in which women have become pawns in a bitter power game, and gives readers a provocative look inside Muslim society today—in their own words.
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Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Explains powerfully how Muslim women are affected by the rise of fundamentalism.”—Dan Rather

In recent years, the expanding movement of militant Islam has changed the way millions think, behave, dress, and live, but nowhere has its impact been more powerfully felt than in its dramatic, often devastating effect on the lives of women. Award-winning journalist Jan Goodwin traveled through ten Islamic countries and interviewed hundreds of Muslim women, from professionals to peasants, from royalty to rebels.  The result is an unforgettable journey into a world where women are confined, isolated, even killed for the sake of a “code of honor” created and zealously enforced by men. 

Price of Honor brings to life a world in which women have become pawns in a bitter power game, and gives readers a provocative look inside Muslim society today—in their own words.
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Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World

Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World

by Jan Goodwin
Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World

Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World

by Jan Goodwin

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Overview

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Explains powerfully how Muslim women are affected by the rise of fundamentalism.”—Dan Rather

In recent years, the expanding movement of militant Islam has changed the way millions think, behave, dress, and live, but nowhere has its impact been more powerfully felt than in its dramatic, often devastating effect on the lives of women. Award-winning journalist Jan Goodwin traveled through ten Islamic countries and interviewed hundreds of Muslim women, from professionals to peasants, from royalty to rebels.  The result is an unforgettable journey into a world where women are confined, isolated, even killed for the sake of a “code of honor” created and zealously enforced by men. 

Price of Honor brings to life a world in which women have become pawns in a bitter power game, and gives readers a provocative look inside Muslim society today—in their own words.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780452283770
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/31/2002
Edition description: REV
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 1,021,953
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.83(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Award-winning journalist Jan Goodwin lived in the Middle East for four years, interviewing women under Islamic rule and spending time with freedom fighters in war-torn Afghanistan. In 2001, she returned to Afghanistan to document the changes that took place when the Taliban was removed from power. She was the executive editor of Ladies’ Home Journal for ten years and currently writes for The New York Times, the Daily News, Mirabella, New Woman, Cosmopolitan, and other national publications. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Price of HonorAcknowledgments

Chapter 1: Fundamentally Different?

Chapter 2: Muslims, the First Feminists

Chapter 3: Pakistan: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Chapter 4: Afghanistan: When You Can't Beat the Donkey, Beat the Saddle

Chapter 5: Iran: There Is No Fun in Islam

Chapter 6: United Arab Emirates: The Playground of the Gulf

Chapter 7: Kuwait: A War of Independence

Chapter 8: Muslim Missionaries, American Converts

Chapter 9: Saudi Arabia: The Custodians of the Two Holiest Places

Chapter 10: Iraq: A Nation of Fear

Chapter 11: Jordan: When Islam Is the Solution

Chapter 12: Israeli-Occupied Territories: Next Year in Jerusalem

Chapter 13: Egypt: The Mother of the World

Chapter 14: Epilogue

Index

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“Goodwin reminds us that the Koran nowhere supports the brutal treatment of women, and the educated women she quotes make this point clear…The author takes us on a tour of the Muslim world, finding horrors almost past belief.” —The New Yorker

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