Following my tour of Feltrinelli Bookstore on Genoa's Via Venti looking for Santanche's pamphlets, I visited French Fnac in Chatelet and found they also had an impressive display of (muslim) women's ordeals for sale.
The issues surrounding muslim women include forced marriage (to a rich gulf prince), life in the harem, slavery, violence on women, divorcing a muslim.
A French subgenre of thiscaptivity literaturedescribes banlieue-women, who might be tortured, burnt or murdered by their male relatives for not marrying some moustachoued cousin. It also exists in its positive version of young migrants who manage to emancipate themselves from their cruel tradition.
Black meets muslim over genital mutilation
I think Jean P. Sasson might be a classic, as Betty Mahmoody, whose book non sans ma fille (2) was also on sale. Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Teheran was supposedly a more high brow approach on Iranian women from a literature teacher but has ended in the "Muslim-women-gore" genre anyway and Ayan Hirsi Ali is a prominent new entry of the last years. But characteristically, though, many of these books are only exotic first names accounts like Leila, Yalda or Suad, burnt alive.
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