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Zoepf, Katherine.
Subjects
Feminism -- Arab countries.
Young women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions.
Young women -- Political activity -- Arab countries.
Muslim women -- Political activity -- Arab countries.
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Zoepf, Katherine.
Feminism -- Arab countries.
Young women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions.
Young women -- Political activity -- Arab countries.
Muslim women -- Political activity -- Arab countries.
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Excellent
daughters
: the
secret
lives
of
young
women
who
are
transforming
the
Arab
world
/ Katherine Zoepf.
by
Zoepf, Katherine.
Penguin Press, c2016.
Call #:
305.420917 Z85e
Subjects
Feminism --
Arab
countries.
Young
women
--
Arab
countries -- Social conditions.
Young
women
-- Political activity --
Arab
countries.
Muslim
women
-- Political activity --
Arab
countries.
ISBN:
9781594203886 (hc.)
Description:
xii, 258 p. : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"For more than a decade, journalist 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 anti-government protests in the
Arab
Spring. But their voices have not been heard. Their stories have not been told. In Syria, before its civil war, Zoepf 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. Good
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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