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UNVEILING THE BREATH
ONE WOMAN’S JOURNEY INTO UNDERSTANDING
ISLAM AND GENDER EQUALITY
by: Donna Kennedy-Glans

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 must 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.
Publishing:
September 9, 2009
Unveiling the Breath incorporates East-West perspectives on faith and
ISBN: 978-88-95604-06-0 feminism, addresses male and female points of view, examines the
$16.95 USD thorny question of how to reconcile spirituality and patriarchy, and
Paperback takes a close look at the complex issues involved in raising sons. In so
doing, Kennedy-Glans peels back the “Gender Onion” starting from
the outer, more secular layers of our globalizing world—the work-
Islam/Gender place and communities—and on to the inner core of our private
world of faith, spirituality and family.

The author is a non-Muslim female from the West who has seen
The purchase of this book gender dilemmas in both the East and West, up close and personal,
directly supports gender and realizes that there are more similarities than differences. Most
harmonization. All royalties importantly it is a book about hope.
from the sale of this book will
be dedicated to advancing
gender harmonization through
the volunteer work of Bridges
Social Development
(www.canadabridges.com).

PRESS CONTACT: Eleanor Peat, marketing@paripublishing.com

Telephone: +39 0564 908009

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