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A manifesto motivated by hope and fury in equal measure, headscarves and hymens is as illuminating as it is incendiary. Headscarves and hymens red deer public library overdrive. Dedication to the girls of the middle east and north africa. Mona eltahawy, an egyptian feminist, delivers a courageous and defiant appeal for womens rights throughout the middle east in her latest book, provocatively titled headscarves and hymens. Epigraph write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the arab world, by an egyptian american journalist and activist. These blinks describe the various forms of oppression women face, from child marriage to virginity tests, and call for a sexual revolution in islamic nations. Drawing on her years as a campaigner and commentator on womens issues in the middle east, she explains that since the arab spring began, women in the arab world have had two revolutions to undertake. Headscarves and hymens is the book the world has been crying out for.
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