The hidden face of Eve : women in the Arab world
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The hidden face of Eve : women in the Arab world
Zed Books, 2007
New ed
- : pb
Available at 3 libraries
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"First published in Arabic in 1977"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-325)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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