Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781594203886
- Book Title
- Excellent Daughters : the Secret Lives of the Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Author
- Katherine Zoepf
- Genre
- Political Science, Social Science
- Topic
- Islamic Studies, Sociology / General, Women’s Studies, World / Middle Eastern
- Item Weight
- 17.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 260 Pages
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594203881
ISBN-13
9781594203886
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211458935
Product Key Features
Book Title
Excellent Daughters : the Secret Lives of the Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Islamic Studies, Sociology / General, Women’s Studies, World / Middle Eastern
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
17.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-043395
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Liza Mundy, Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family: “Katherine Zoepf has written an unforgettable book. Deft and haunting, smart and empathetic, beautifully observed and sometimes heartbreakingly tragic, Excellent Daughters should be required reading for anyone who cares about the condition of women or indeed the condition of the world. This is a landmark work of non-fiction that is both astonishingly intimate and globally important.”
Dewey Decimal
305.420917/4927
Synopsis
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 only children and married women. Today, young Arab women outnumber men in universities, and a few are beginning to face down religious and social tradition in order to live independently, to delay marriage, and to pursue professional goals. Hundreds of thousands of devout girls and women are attending Qur’anic schools–and using the training to argue for greater rights and freedoms from an Islamic perspective. And, in 2011, young women helped to lead antigovernment protests in the Arab Spring. But their voices have not been heard. Their stories have not been told. In Syria, before its civil war, she documents a complex society in the midst of soul searching about its place in the world and about the role of women. In Lebanon, she documents a country that on the surface is freer than other Arab nations but whose women must balance extreme standards of self-presentation with Islamic codes of virtue. In Abu Dhabi, Zoepf reports on a generation of Arab women who’ve found freedom in work outside the home. In Saudi Arabia she chronicles driving protests and women entering the retail industry for the first time. In the aftermath of Tahrir Square, she examines the crucial role of women in Egypt’s popular uprising. Deeply informed, heartfelt, and urgent, Excellent Daughters brings us a new understanding of the changing Arab societies–from 9/11 to Tahrir Square to the rise of ISIS–and gives voice to the remarkable women at the forefront of this change., For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or travelled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Today, Arab women outnumber men in universities, and a few are beginning to face down religious and social tradition in order to live independently, to delay marriage and to pursue professional goals. Deeply informed, heartfelt and urgent, Excellent Daughters brings us a new understanding of changing Arab societies and gives voice to the remarkable women at the forefront of this change.
LC Classification Number
HQ1784
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