Cooke, Miriam. “Prisons: Egyptian Women Writers on Islam.” Religion & Literature, Vol. 20, N° 1, The Literature of Islam. (1988), pp. 139-153
The author focuses on the interpretation of many books from Islamic women and how they use literature to express their oppression. The article exposes two sides of the idea of the Quran; in one hand people say that it is misunderstanding of the Quran because the Holy book explains that men and women are complement and that’s why they have different duties but in the other hand people believe that the Quran dehumanize women. Cooke in her article conclude that “These writings give the oppressed female a voice to which the male oppressor must listen,” meaning that isn’t a misunderstanding of the Holy book …show more content…
On the other hand, Miriam Cooke is a professor and also has a Ph. D.s of modern Arabic literature and culture; she teaches at Duke University. Her education makes her article more credible because she knows about the life on that area of the world and could do a deep analysis. All this components increase the article’s credibility.
The article is going to help me with my topic because the author makes an analysis of how women in the Middle East use literature to expose the ambiguities of the Islam. This article is important for my research because it explains that people believe that the cause of oppression is that people interpret in a different way the Quran’s rules; the reality is that in some of the passages from the Quran say that women are less than men. The author uses books of Islamic women to support her research about how literature gives to oppressed female the opportunity to speak up.
Eft, Natalie. Russ-Eft Darlene. “The Role and Status of Women in a Rural Village in Egypt: Five Life Stages.” Human Resource Development International, vol. 8, N° 3 (2005), pp. 277-