Excellent daughters : the secret lives of young women who are transforming the Arab world /

"For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. There were on...

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Main Author: Zoepf, Katherine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • And let them throw their veils over their bosoms
  • Religious education is a great protection for a woman
  • The most promiscuous virgins in the world
  • Washing away the shame
  • Before we get married, we have each other
  • It becomes very difficult to go home again
  • Driving will lead women to leave their homes a lot, whether they need to or not
  • The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine.