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Article Excerpt
Doris H. Gray
Lanham: Lexington Books of Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
218 pages, paper, $29.95
Muslim Women on the Move compares the views of young, educated, professional, and urban women in Morocco and of Moroccan origin in France. The analysis focuses especially on these women's "conceptions of Islam, legal changes and personal and professional aspirations and challenges'" (12). What emerges from the interviews with these women is that they have much more in common than one might assume at first glance, especially given the differences in their respective social, political, cultural, and geographical contexts. Gray continuously challenges the assumption that there is a clear dichotomy between the Western and the Muslim worlds. Rather, Gray brings to the fore the...
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