Price of honor : Muslim women lift the veil of silence on the Islamic world / Jan Goodwin. Goodwin, Jan, author.

New York, N.Y. : Plume, [1995]

363 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm

Synopsis: Based upon interviews conducted in ten Islamic countries, this book for the general reader describes the daily oppression experienced by women living under fundamentalist rule. Journalist Goodwin reports on how women are submitting to or fighting against such practices as polygamy, arranged child marriages and the wearing of the chador.