Unveiling the Breath: One Woman's Journey into Understanding Islam and Gender

Unveiling the Breath: One woman's journey into understanding Islam and gender equality tackles one of the most pressing issues that face us today-the changing roles that men and women confront in a globalizing world. In particular, it explores the whole issue of gender within the Islamic world. This is the world the author has observed firsthand both through her humanitarian work and her experience as the first female vice-president of Nexen Inc., a large Canadian-based energy company operating in Muslim-majority countries.

Unveiling the Breath incorporates East-West perspectives on faith and feminism, male and female points of view, ways to reconcile spirituality and patriarchy, and the issues involved in raising sons. In doing so the book peels back the "Gender Onion" starting from the outer, more secular layers of our globalizing world-the workplace and communities-to the inner core of our private world of faith, spirituality and family. As she explores the quandaries of gender in both East and West, Kennedy-Glans perceives more similarities than differences.

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Unveiling the Breath: One Woman's Journey into Understanding Islam and Gender

Unveiling the Breath: One woman's journey into understanding Islam and gender equality tackles one of the most pressing issues that face us today-the changing roles that men and women confront in a globalizing world. In particular, it explores the whole issue of gender within the Islamic world. This is the world the author has observed firsthand both through her humanitarian work and her experience as the first female vice-president of Nexen Inc., a large Canadian-based energy company operating in Muslim-majority countries.

Unveiling the Breath incorporates East-West perspectives on faith and feminism, male and female points of view, ways to reconcile spirituality and patriarchy, and the issues involved in raising sons. In doing so the book peels back the "Gender Onion" starting from the outer, more secular layers of our globalizing world-the workplace and communities-to the inner core of our private world of faith, spirituality and family. As she explores the quandaries of gender in both East and West, Kennedy-Glans perceives more similarities than differences.

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Unveiling the Breath: One Woman's Journey into Understanding Islam and Gender

Unveiling the Breath: One Woman's Journey into Understanding Islam and Gender

by Donna Kennedy-Glans
Unveiling the Breath: One Woman's Journey into Understanding Islam and Gender

Unveiling the Breath: One Woman's Journey into Understanding Islam and Gender

by Donna Kennedy-Glans

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Unveiling the Breath: One woman's journey into understanding Islam and gender equality tackles one of the most pressing issues that face us today-the changing roles that men and women confront in a globalizing world. In particular, it explores the whole issue of gender within the Islamic world. This is the world the author has observed firsthand both through her humanitarian work and her experience as the first female vice-president of Nexen Inc., a large Canadian-based energy company operating in Muslim-majority countries.

Unveiling the Breath incorporates East-West perspectives on faith and feminism, male and female points of view, ways to reconcile spirituality and patriarchy, and the issues involved in raising sons. In doing so the book peels back the "Gender Onion" starting from the outer, more secular layers of our globalizing world-the workplace and communities-to the inner core of our private world of faith, spirituality and family. As she explores the quandaries of gender in both East and West, Kennedy-Glans perceives more similarities than differences.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788895604060
Publisher: Pari Publishing
Publication date: 09/25/2009
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range: 4 - 17 Years

About the Author

Donna Kennedy-Glans is a lawyer and businesswoman from Calgary, Alberta, with 24 years of practical experience guiding organizations in their management of integrity dilemmas—at the head office and on the ground—in more than 30 countries. She was the first female vice-president of a large Western energy company operating in the Middle East, Africa and the Near East. .Donna Kennedy Glans lives in Calgary, Alberta, with her husband and their three sons.
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