By Sharif Gemie

Women’s Writing and Muslim Societies appears on the upward thrust in works touching on Muslim societies by means of either western and Muslim ladies – from pioneering lady guests like Freya Stark and Edith Wharton within the early 20th century, whose bills of the Orient have been often playful and funny, to the current day and such works as Azar Nafisi’s interpreting Lolita in Tehran and Betty Mahmoody’s no longer with no My Daughter, which current a extensively various view of Muslim Societies marked via worry, hostility or even disgust. the writer, Sharif Gemie, additionally considers a brand new variety of girl Muslim writers whose works recommend various different views that talk of inauspicious trips, the issues of integration, identification crises and the altering nature of Muslim cultures; within the technique, this quantity examines different trips throughout cultural, political and spiritual borders, discussing the issues confronted by means of girl travelers, the issues of trans-cultural romances and the problems of creating discussion among enemy camps.

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