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The Muslim Caged Woman,
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This review is from: Woman in the Muslim Unconscious (Paperback)
1984 paperback in English, Pergamon Press Inc.; Elmsford, NY, by Fatna Sabbah; translated by: Mary Jo Lakeland. (orig.: 1982 in French: La femme dans I'inconscient Musulman, by Le Sycomore Pub., Paris, France.) Even though written from a feminist perspective, this old male chauvinist recognizes the soundness of the author's contentions. To quote from the book's conclusion: "The ideal of female beauty in Islam is obedience, silence, and immobility, that is, inertia and passivity....Any manifestation of will by the believer, any attempt to change the existing order, to create alternatives is bida (innovation), as this is errant behavior. Man must invest his energy, no in attempts to express himself, but in attempts to decipher the discourse of the almighty [Allah]. This is the objective of religious science.... (A)t the level of economics, nature has been created for him according to precise divine plan, and all he must do in this earthly life is pray to God, to worship him day and night in order to receive the goods which he [man] needs. Contents: Relationship between sex, politics, and economics in dependent Islam; Woman as Satan's representative; Sex in the context of peripheral capitalism; The religious erotic discourse: the female body as the product of male pleasure; Genesis of the erotic discourse; The omnisexual woman: a voracious vagina; The houri; The female body as a field of sacred writing; The ecological field: universal inequality and sexual inequality. "For legal Islam, pleasure is the generating force of subversion, and Muslim civilization is defined as an attempt to control pleasure" (p. 4). "The official statements on political and sexual matters in the Muslim societies are distressing, not simply because they are meager and lack substance, but above all because they are mechanically repeated" (p. 5). [The veil] "represents the denial of the economics dimension of women, who, according to the tenets of Muslim orthodoxy, are exclusively sexual beings" (p. 5). "This woman is depicted as an omnisexual woman, a creature whose most prominent attribute, which determines her whole personality and behavior, is her sexual organs" (p. 24). "Islamic polygyny gives a man the right to divides his favors between four legitimate wives besides innumerable concubines" (p. 32). This 132-page paperback explores how the Quran, and the hadith, curtail women's sexual desires to serve the religious needs of the husband. "Pleasure, the temple of peace and quite, idleness, and relaxation, becomes a genital prison where man, reduced to his sexual organ, can exist only when it is ...able to satisfy a woman who is herself reduced to being a vampire-vagina" (p. 58). The author analyses how man strives to achieve Paradise in order to conquer the sexual delights that await him there. The author places great emphasis on the Islamic concepts of predetermination: "It is not possible for the believer to acquire material or immaterial wealth except through the intermediary of the divine will" (p. 79). The author explains why Mohammad had to eventually discredited and physically destroy the "Banat Allah" : the three stone godesses: Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Al-Manat. The houri is "the paradisal woman, the ideal, example, and model of femininity" (p. 90). This feminist-oriented author castrates the male-dominance theology of Islam; the best I've read anyway.
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The Muslim caged woman,
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This review is from: Woman in the Muslim Unconscious (Athene Ser.) (Hardcover)
1984 paperback in English, Pergamon Press Inc.; Elmsford, NY, by Fatna Sabbah; translated by: Mary Jo Lakeland. (orig.: 1982 in French: La femme dans I'inconscient Musulman, by Le Sycomore Pub., Paris, France.) Even though written from a feminist perspective, this old male chauvinist recognizes the soundness of the author's contentions. To quote from the book's conclusion: "The ideal of female beauty in Islam is obedience, silence, and immobility, that is, inertia and passivity.... Any manifestation of will by the believer, any attempt to change the existing order, to create alternatives is bida (innovation), as this is errant behavior. Man must invest his energy, no in attempts to express himself, but in attempts to decipher the discourse of the almighty [Allah]. This is the objective of religious science.... (A)t the level of economics, nature has been created for him according to precise divine plan, and all he must do in this earthly life is pray to God, to worship him day and night in order to receive the goods which he [man] needs. Contents: Relationship between sex, politics, and economics in dependent Islam; Woman as Satan's representative; Sex in the context of peripheral capitalism; The religious erotic discourse: the female body as the product of male pleasure; Genesis of the erotic discourse; The omnisexual woman: a voracious vagina; The houri; The female body as a field of sacred writing; The ecological field: universal inequality and sexual inequality. "For legal Islam, pleasure is the generating force of subversion, and Muslim civilization is defined as an attempt to control pleasure" (p. 4). "The official statements on political and sexual matters in the Muslim societies are distressing, not simply because they are meager and lack substance, but above all because they are mechanically repeated" (p. 5). [The veil] "represents the denial of the economics dimension of women, who, according to the tenets of Muslim orthodoxy, are exclusively sexual beings" (p. 5). "This woman is depicted as an omnisexual woman, a creature whose most prominent attribute, which determines her whole personality and behavior, is her sexual organs" (p. 24). "Islamic polygyny gives a man the right to divides his favors between four legitimate wives besides innumerable concubines" (p. 32). This 132-page paperback explores how the Quran, and the hadith, curtail women's sexual desires to serve the religious needs of the husband. "Pleasure, the temple of peace and quite, idleness, and relaxation, becomes a genital prison where man, reduced to his sexual organ, can exist only when it is ...able to satisfy a woman who is herself reduced to being a vampire-vagina" (p. 58). The author analyses how man strives to achieve Paradise in order to conquer the sexual delights that await him there. The author places great emphasis on the Islamic concepts of predetermination: "It is not possible for the believer to acquire material or immaterial wealth except through the intermediary of the divine will" (p. 79). The author explains why Mohammad had to eventually discredited and physically destroy the "Banat Allah" : the three stone godesses: Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Al-Manat. The houri is "the paradisal woman, the ideal, example, and model of femininity" (p. 90). This feminist-oriented author castrates the male-dominance theology of Islam; the best I've read anyway.
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The Caged Islamic Woman,
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