Bound Feet And Western Dress My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under The Tali-

Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha ban Latifa

BIO 951 CHA
Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of
the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Yu-i
led a life marked by a series of rebellions that
changed the course of her life. Chang tells her great
aunt's story, the saga of a woman born in Shanghai at
the turn of the century.
BIO 958.1046 LAT
Now 22, Latifa was 16 when the Taliban seized power
in 1996. Overnight, Afghani women were stripped of
their aspirations, their pleasures and their freedom. She
Survival Of
Women
describes the sudden change that transformed her home
into her prison and her clothes into symbols of shame

A Leaf In The Bitter Wind: A Memoir

Ye, Ting-Xing
My Desert Kingdom: Finding A Life In Saudi Ara-
bia Koolmees, Jill
BIO 953.8 KOO
In Different Cultures
BIO 951.05 YE
Ye was born in Shanghai, the fourth child of a fac- The Storyteller’s Daughter Shah, Saira
tory owner who had his factory taken from him. By BIO 958.1046 SHA
the age of thirteen, her parents were dead. The Cul- (Afghanistan)
tural Revolution then tore Ye's family apart.
(1) Princess: A True Story Of Life Behind The Veil
Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Life Of A De- In Saudi Arabia
sert Nomad Dirie, Waris Sasson, Jean P
BIO 305.42 DIR BIO 953.8 SUL
The "Desert Flower" started life as one of 12 children (2) Daughters Of Arabia/Princess Sultana’s Daugh-
of a Somali nomad family, a people with no written ters
culture, where the basic unit of currency is the camel. (3) Princess Sultana’s Circle/Desert Royal
Faced at 12 with the prospect of marriage to a 60-
year-old man she didn't know, she broke all the rules A Border Passage: From Cairo To America
and ran away, surviving a traumatic trek across the Ahmed, Leila
desert to end up in London, as a maid to the Somalian BIO 305.42 AHM
Ambassador. It was in McDonalds that her striking
beauty was "discovered", leading to a career in mod- Sewing Circles Of The Heart Lamb, Christina
elling and another as an ardent campaigner against BIO 958.1046 LAM
female genital mutilation (Afghanistan)

Nine Parts Of Desire: The Hidden World Of Is- Broken Bangles

lamic Women Brooks, Geraldine Deen, Hanifa NF 305.48 DEE
305.42 BRO (Pakistan)
This is a study of Islamic women, and of the often
contradictory political, religious and cultural forces http://www.amazon.co.uk
that shape their lives.
Invercargill Public Library
Zoya’s Story: An Afghan Woman’s Struggle For Adult Services 211 1765
Freedom Zoya Email: adults@ilibrary.co.nz
BIO 958.1046 ZOY Website: www.ilibrary.co.nz
Samira And Samir Shakib, Siba
BIO 958.1046 SHA
When the young Afghanistanian girl Samira is born,
her father, a commander fighting in the mountainous
regions of Afghanistan, decides to raise her as a boy
called Samir. The fact that Samir is really a girl is
soon forgotton as Samir learns to fight, ride and shoot
as well as any boy and when her father is killed she
becomes the head of the family. As an adult, she falls
in love with the male friend of her youth and is forced
to reveal her true identity. In order to marry Bashir,
she must relinquish the freedom she is afforded as a
man.
Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes To Weep
Shakib, Siba
BIO 958.1046 SHA
The moving story of an indomitable Afghan woman,
Shirin-Gol, who rebelled against life within a forced
marriage, spent behind the walls of her house, and
who wanted an education for her children so that they
might have the chance to live free from the fear and
poverty she had known since girlhood.
Reading Lolita In Tehran Nafisi, Azar
BIO 820.9 NAF (Iran)
In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at
a university in Tehran due to its repressive policies,
Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students
to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in
her home. Since the books they read were officially
banned by the government, the women were forced to
meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the
illegal novels.
Burned Alive: A Victim Of The Law Of Men
Souad
BIO 362.8292 SOU
(Honour Killings-Palestine)
The shocking true story of a young girl from the West
Bank, who survived an attempted honour killing.
Mayada: Daughter Of Iraq Sasson, Jean P
BIO 956.7044 MAY
Iraqi woman's true story of life inside Saddam Hus-
sein's torture prisons.
Without Mercy: A Woman’s Struggle Against
Modern Slavery Ali, Miriam
BIO 306.81 ALI
This is the true story of one woman's fight against a
violent and tyrannical relationship and her struggle
to reclaim her two daughters, sold into marriage in
the Yemen.
Kidnapped In Yemen Quin, Mary
NZ BIO 953.3 QUI
When Mary Quin ripped an AK-47 from the hands
of a wounded kidnapper and made her escape in the
Yemeni desert, she knew her life could never be the
same. An exotic vacation had turned into a night-
mare, as she and 15 fellow tourists were used as hu-
man shields in a terrifying gun battle between the
Aden-Abyan Islamic Army and Yemeni troops that
left four hostages and three kidnappers dead.
Not Without My Daughter Mahmoody, Betty
BIO 365.955 MAH
'You are here for the rest of your life. Do you under-
stand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here until
you die.' Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Say-
yed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran
from the USA to meet Moody's family. With them
was their four-year-old daughter, Mahtob. Appalled
by the squalor of their living conditions, horrified by
what she saw of a country where women are merely
chattels and Westerners are despised, Betty soon be-
came desperate to return to the States. But Moody,
and his often vicious family, had other plans.
Heroine Of The Desert
Al-Nahi, Donya
BIO 362.8297 ALN
The Harem Within: Tales Of A Moroccan Girl-
hood Mernissi, Fatima
BIO 964 MER
As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by
the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men
and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why
couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the
streets, while men stayed locked behind the harem
gates? In this story, she tells of her childhood in a Fez
harem in the 1940s, a period of social transition in
Morocco.
Do They Hear You When You Cry
Kassindja, Fauziya
BIO 305.48 KAZ
The dramatic story of Fauziya Kassindja, who fled
her African homeland to escape female genital muti-
lation and forced polygamy.
Bridge Across My Sorrows Noble, Christina
BIO 959.7044 NOB
On the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, the destitute
children swarm and the rich turn a blind eye. To
these needy children "Mama Tina" has become an
irrepressible, unorthodox and staunch champion.
Within two years of arriving she has opened a Medi-
cal and Social Centre and achieved worldwide fame.
Autobiography Of A Geisha
Masuda, Sayo
BIO 305.4339 MAS
At the age of six masuda's poverty-stricken family
sent her to work as a nursemaid. At the age of twelve,
she was indentured to a geisha house.
Guzin Najim’s The Promise: An Iraqi Mother’s
Desperate Flight To Freedom
Lee, Sandra
BIO 956.7044 NAJ
My Feudal Lord Durrani, Tehmina
BIO 954.91 DUR
(Pakistan)