Warning: Use of undefined constant referer - assumed 'referer' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 102

Warning: Use of undefined constant host - assumed 'host' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 105

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 106

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 109
Review of Nine Parts of Desire - Research Paper

Review of Nine Parts of Desire

Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks

In journalist Geraldine Brooks' first book - published in 1995, well after the Gulf War - she tries hard to get past the mysteries and misunderstandings, and into the truths of Islamic women. For the most part, Brooks' effort is laudable and informative, albeit her narrative often takes a condescending tone. But perhaps her tone - she's a native of Australia - is not unlike attitudes shown by most Western citizens towards Islam. And also, it's possible her tone is justified, given the cruelty many Islamic women and girls must endure. Indeed, non-Moslem Americans as a generalization do not understand and do not get pleasure from Moslem ...

Want to read the rest of this paper?
Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay
and over 50,000 other term papers

over their bosoms." But when Brooks reads the quote to her Moslem translator, Shar, the translator has her own interpretation. So, Brooks goes on, "I...argued with her that it made no reference at all to covering hair." How much success will a Western woman have arguing with an Islamic woman about a veil and its purpose? Not much. But, apparently Brooks put that in her book to show readers she actually went to the Middle East and put on a show of interrogative chutzpah. Meantime, still investigating the veil issue (page 22), Brooks writes that "where women wore the veil, there was money to be made in Islamic fashion," and she points to a three-floor clothing emporium in Cairo "that stocked nothing but Islamically correct outfits" - and many of those veils "could run to three of four times a civil servant's monthly salary." Readers easily get the gist of the paradox: poverty vs. cultural obligation.
On pages 64-65, Brooks investigates the institution of marriage in ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays.
Write better papers. Get better grades.

Already a member? Login

CITE THIS PAGE:

APA
MLA
Chicago
Turabian

Review of Nine Parts of Desire. (2016, January 21). Retrieved March 12, 2026, from http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Review-of-Nine-Parts-of-Desire/105385

"Review of Nine Parts of Desire." Essayworld.com. Essayworld.com, 21 Jan. 2016. Web. 12 Mar. 2026. <http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Review-of-Nine-Parts-of-Desire/105385>

"Review of Nine Parts of Desire." Essayworld.com. January 21, 2016. Accessed March 12, 2026. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Review-of-Nine-Parts-of-Desire/105385.

JOIN NOW

Join today and get instant access to this and 50,000+ other essays

PAPER DETAILS

Added: 1/21/2016 10:17:30 AM
Category: Women's Issues
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 797
Pages: 3

Save |

Report

SHARE THIS PAPER

SAVED ESSAYS

Save and find your favorite essays easier