Price of Honor

ANEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKExplains powerfully how Muslim women are affected by the rise of fundamentalism.Dan Rather. In recent years the expanding movement of militant Islam has changed the way millions think behave dress and live but nowhere has its impact been more powerfully felt than in its dramatic often devastating effect on the lives of women. Award-winning journalist Jan Goodwin traveled through ten Islamic countries and interviewed hundreds of Muslim women from professionals to peasants from royalty to rebels. The result is an unforgettable journey into a world where women are confined isolated even killed for the sake of a code of honor created and zealously enforced by men.. Price of Honor brings to life a world in which women have become pawns in a bitter power game and gives readers a provocative look inside Muslim society todayin their own words.