Mernissi's work explores the relationship between sexual ideology, gender identity, sociopolitical organization, and the status of women in Islam; her special focus, however, is Moroccan society and culture. As a feminist, her work represents an attempt to undermine the ideological and political systems that silence and oppress Muslim women

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Introduction : The root of the modern situation -- Part One. The traditional Muslim view of women and their place in the social order : The Muslim concept of active female sexuality The regulation of female sexuality in the Muslim social order -- Part Two. The anomic effects of modernization on male-female dynamics : The modern situation : A description of the data Sexual anomie as revealed by the data -- Husband and wife -- The mother-in-law -- The meaning of spatial boundaries -- The economic basis of sexual anomie in modern Morocco -- Conclusion : Women's liberation in Muslim countries.