Price Of Honour

Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence

Author: Jan Goodwin

An informed, candid and controversial look inside Muslim society - and a powerful wake-up call to the world.

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An informed, candid and controversial look inside Muslim society - and a powerful wake-up call to the world.

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An American journalist provides insights into women's lives, and the traditions imposed on them, from arranged marriages to a husband's right to take his wife's life, in many Islamic countries. The women depicted - both single and married - are from a variety of backgrounds and environments, from power-broking, the jet-set and the professions, to rural villages, red-light districts and child-labour camps. Some of the women are content; some are resigned. Others, especially the educated, are incensed by social norms that allow them to be confined, even killed, for the sake of a man's honour. Jan Goodwin is the author of "Caught in the Crossfire", an account of her experiences travelling with Afghanistan's mujahideen fighters during the war against the Soviet Union.

Critic Reviews

“Goodwin's book deals with an important issue without debunking the religion itself, a fine achievement”

'A remarkable book' Katharine Whitehorn, OBSERVER '' ASIAN TIMES 'Always engrossing, astonishing in its diversity' IRISH TIMES

About the Author

Jan Goodwin is an award-winning journalist and author.

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An informed, candid and controversial look inside Muslim society - and a powerful wake-up call to the world.Muslim women, symbols of honour for their men, speak out and take us into the volatile heartland of Islam, the world's fastest growing religion. Price of Honour recounts a wide range of telling, often horrific stories about the ways in which Muslim women are abused and oppressed by their menfolk, and shows how restrictions on women act as a barometer for measuring both the growth of fundamentalism and the Muslim regimes' willingness to appease extremists.