Passionate, powerful and thought-provoking, in The Hidden Face of Eve, leading feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi provides a shocking account of the oppression of women in the Arab world.
Inspired by her experiences working as a doctor in rural Egypt and her life as an activist for women's rights, she charts the injustices and violence faced by women in the society she grew up in, from legal inequality to honour killings and sexual violence, including female genital mutilation. Examining the historical roots of this oppression, she tackles the controversial topic of women and Islam, arguing that customs such as veiling and polygamy are contradictory to the fundamental teachings of the Muslim faith or any other.
As necessary now as when it was first published, The Hidden Face of Eve is a classic of Arab feminist writing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- More Praise for this Book
- Dedication
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the English Edition
- Introduction
- PART I The Mutilated Half
- 1 The Question that No One Would Answer
- 2 Sexual Aggression against the Female Child
- 3 The Grandfather with Bad Manners
- 4 The Injustice of Justice
- 5 The Very Fine Membrane Called ‘Honour’
- 6 Circumcision of Girls
- 7 Obscurantism and Contradiction
- 8 The Illegitimate Child and the Prostitute
- 9 Abortion and Fertility
- 10 Distorted Notions about Femininity, Beauty and Love
- PART II Women in History
- 11 The Thirteenth Rib of Adam
- 12 Man the God, Woman the Sinful
- 13 Woman at the Time of the Pharaohs
- 14 Liberty to the Slave, But Not for the Woman
- PART III The Arab Woman
- 15 The Role of Women in Arab History
- 16 Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab
- 17 The Heroine in Arab Literature
- PART IV Breaking Through
- 18 Arab Pioneers of Women’s Liberation
- 19 Work and Women
- 20 Marriage and Divorce
- An Afterword
- Notes
- Copyright
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