Jan Goodwin's "Price of Honor"

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This paper explains that Jan Goodwin's "Price of Honor" is a conglomeration of interviews from her travels in the Middle East. The author points out that the book highlights the lack of fundamental human rights for women living under Islamic culture not only in developing countries but also throughout the Muslim world. The paper relates individual cases of abuses endured by women in various countries including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran and to a lesser degree the UAE. The author believes that Muslim women who still live in their oppressive countries would benefit most from reading this work. The paper states that the strengths of this book are the strength of the individual stories told by the women of their day-to-day oppressive conditions and the fact that Godwin traveled to multiple Arab countries, which gives the book a great deal of legitimacy.

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"Many Islamic countries hold a similar ideology to that of Pakistan's. Saudi Arabia, for example, does not allow women to enter the country unless accompanied by a male, moreover, Saudi Arabia is the only county in the world that does not allow women drive. Iran is another country where women suffer many abuses. A fifty-five year old woman named Fairbah was arrested, and whipped for not having her hair properly covered. It is ironic that the gravest human rights abuses occur in countries that are more theocratic as opposed to secular in nature. Mohammad, the founder of Islam, was among the world's greatest reformers on behalf of woman."

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