| Description |
xxxvi, 412 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
"Published by arrangement with Virago Press, London"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Growing up to be a woman writer in Lebanon / Etel Adnan -- Warda al-Turk / Warda al-Yaziji -- Who are you, Claire Gebeyli? / Nadia Tueni -- Difficult journey, mountainous journey / Fadwa Tuqan -- Farewell, betrothal, wedding (c. 1945) / Huda Shaarawi -- Amina / Shirley Saad -- Protected one / Samira Azzam -- Seventy years later / Ulfa Idelbi -- Lecture on clitoridectomy to the midwives of Touil / Zainaba -- Who'll be the man? ; Honour / Alifa Rifaat -- I saw her and that's enough ; In a contemporary house / Khairiya Saqqaf -- Hasan's wives / Wadida Wassef -- People / Nadia Guendouz -- Women, nationalism and religion in the Algerian struggle / Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas -- Eyes in the mirror / Daisy al-Amir -- Silk bands / Noha Radwan. |
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Results of circumstances in words and deeds ; Family reform / Aisha al-Taimuriya -- Bad deeds of men : injustice / Bahithat al-Badiya -- Our constitution : we the liberated women / Ghada Samman -- September birds / Emily Nasrallah -- Girl called apple / Hanan al-Shaikh -- House of obedience / Ihsan Assal -- Excised / Evelyne Accad -- House of arrest / Andree Chedid -- Personal papers / May Muzaffar -- My mother / Fadhma Amrouche -- Rima / Samar Attar -- Eyes / Nawal al-Saadawi -- Dawn of the Arabic Women's Press / Hind Nawfal -- Fair and equal treatment / Zainab Fawwaz -- Lecture in the club of the Umma Party / Bahithat al-Badiya -- Warda al-Yaziji / May Ziyada -- Elopement and the impossible joy / Qut al-Qulub -- Effects of books and novels and morals ; Differences between men and women / Nabawiya Musa. |
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Unveiling and veiling ; Young woman and the shaikhs / Nazira Zain al-Din -- Double standard / Saiza Nabarawi -- Voice of happiness / Zoubeida Bittari -- Gate of heaven is open / Farida Benlyazid -- Two faces, one woman / Nuha Samara -- From Tumbling on the snow / Huda Naamani -- Who's cleverer, man or woman? / Fatima Mernissi -- My life / Chaibia -- Eight eyes / Sufi Abdallah -- Pan-Arab feminism / Huda Shaarawi -- Arab women's intellectual heritage / Zahiya Dughan -- We Egyptian women / Inji Aflatun -- Islam and the constitutional rights of women / Duriya Shafiq -- Feast of unveiling ; Why Reverend Shaikh? / Amina Said -- Challenges facing young women in the twentieth century / Nahid Toubia -- Legal rights of the Egyptian women / Group of Egyptian Women. |
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Unveiled voice / Amatalrauf al-Sharki -- Introduction to Nawal al-Saadawi's Ferdaous / Assia Djebar -- Reflections of a feminist / Nawal al-Saadawi. |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Arab countries.
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Women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Arab countries -- Economic conditions.
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| Added Author |
Badran, Margot.
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Cooke, Miriam.
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| ISBN |
0253205778 (pbk.) |
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0253311217 (alk. paper) |
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