1. Burning Desires
   Sex in America: A report from the field
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   Burning Desires looks at the state of sex in the aftermath of the `sexual counter-revolution' that marked the 1980s.
2. Connexions Library: Religion Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on religion.
3. Headscarves and Hymens
   Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2015
   A condemnation of the repressive political, cultural, and religious forces that reduce millions of women to second-class citizens.
4. Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
   Book Review
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2015
   One afternoon earlier this year, I stepped into the carriage of a Cairo metro train. I was on the way home from interviewing female students - all of them devout, veiled Muslims - who had been snatched off the street and sexually assaulted by police for protesting against the military regime. It was hard for them to speak openly about the attacks for fear of shaming their families and destroying their own chances of marriage.
5. Infidel
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali woman who escaped a forced marriage and moved to the Netherlands, where she became a spokeswoman for Muslim women's rights. She tells the story of how her experiences led her to question her faith.
   
6. Knicker protest targets Hindu militants
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2009
   The socially conservative Hindu Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) a group of vigilantes has attacked women in pubs and unwed couples, in an effort to protect what they call "Indian Culture". Indian women fought back by sending 40,000 pairs of pink underwear to their offices.
7. Learning to Love Patriarchy
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1998
   A Canadian Catholic school teacher's struggle with the patriarchal values of the Catholic Church and their instruction to teachers to impress upon their female students the "value of motherhood".
8. The roots of gay oppression
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2007
   Marxists, since Marx and Engels themselves, have always believed that only a socialist revolution could open the way to sexual freedom and equality. The history of same-sex relations suggests that the most basic human activities, including sexuality, are collectively constructed in human society.
9. The Secret Museum
   Pornography in Modern Culture
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
10. Seeds of Fire - January 2
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    
11. Uk needs modern mosques
    The third generation of British Muslims still don't have mosques that teach compassion and citizenship
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    An Islamic woman's opinion column mourns the lack of modern mosques in England. She discusses her search for a place where her children could learn Arabic and how to read the Qu'ran without facing violence or being forced to cover their faces or change their hair.
12. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
    Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
13. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.

Experts on Religion & Sexual Oppression in the Sources Directory

1. Women Living Under Muslim Law