by Geraldine Brooks · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422669937
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«Un mundo bajo el velo» is the historical essay by Geraldine Brooks, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (333 pages, in Spanish).
Brooks analyses the lives of Muslim women in Iran, Jordan and the West Bank. She recalls that Khadija, the prophet's wife, did not veil her face, in contrast to the chador that confines them today; she shows how the Quran has been used to justify female repression and champions an Islamic feminism that challenges Western stereotypes.
It corresponds to the first Spanish edition of 1998, translated by Ana Herrera. The original English title, 'Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women', was published in 1994.
For readers of history, religion, politics and feminism, with an interest in the Middle East and Islam.
Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2005 novel March.
