The hidden face of Eve : women in the Arab world

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The hidden face of Eve : women in the Arab world

Nawal El Saadawi ; translated and edited by Sherif Hetata

Zed Books, 2007

New ed

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"First published in Arabic in 1977"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-325)

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内容説明

This powerful account of the oppression of women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago. Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt, witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, including female circumcision, drove her to give voice to this suffering. She goes on explore the causes of the situation through a discussion of the historical role of Arab women in religion and literature. Saadawi argues that the veil, polygamy and legal inequality are incompatible with the essence of Islam or any human faith. This edition, complete with a new foreword, lays claim to The Hidden Face of Eve's status as a classic of modern Arab writing.

目次

New Foreword by Ronak Husni Preface to the English Edition Introduction Part I - The Mutliated Half Chapter 1 - The Question that No One Would Answer Chapter 2 - Sexual Agression Against the Female Child Chapter 3 - The Grandfather with Bad Manners Chapter 4 - The Injustice of Justice Chapter 5 - The Very Fine Membrane Called 'Honour' Chapter 6 - Circumcision of Girls Chapter 7 - Obscurantism and Contradiction Chapter 8 - The Illegitimate Child and the Prostitute Chapter 9 - Abortion and Fertility Chapter 10 - Distorted Notions about Femininity, Beauty and Love Part II - Women in History Chapter 11 - The Thirteenth Rib of Adam Chapter 12 - Man the God, Woman the Sinful Chapter 13 - Woman at the Time of the Pharaohs Chapter 14 - Liberty to the Slave, But Not for the Woman Part III - The Arab Woman Chapter 15 - The Role of Women in Arab History Chapter 16 - Love and Sex in the Life of the Arabs Chapter 17 - The Heroine in Arab Literature Part IV - Breaking Through Chapter 18 - Arab Pioneers of Women's Liberation Chapter 19 - Work and Women Chapter 20 - Marriage and Divorce An Afterword

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