- 358 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old and escaping suitors at ten and her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the early years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- About the author
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface: The Gift
- 1 Allah and McDonald’s
- 2 The Cry in the Night
- 3 God Above, Husband Below
- 4 Thank God for Our Calamities
- 5 Flying with the Butterflies
- 6 Killing the Bridegroom
- 7 Daughter of the Sea
- 8 My Revolutionary Father
- 9 The Lost Servant-Girl
- 10 The Village of Forgotten Employees
- 11 God Hid behind the Coat-Stand
- 12 The Ministry of Nauseation
- 13 Dreaming of Pianos
- 14 To the Circus
- 15 The Singing Man
- 16 The Whiskered Peasant
- 17 Uncles, Suitors and Other Bloodsuckers
- 18 A Stove for My Mother
- 19 Coming to Cairo
- 20 The Long, Strong Bones of a Horse
- 21 Love and the Hideous Cat
- 22 Art Thieves
- 23 Mad Aunts and Abandoned Babies
- 24 The House of Desolation
- 25 The Secret Communist
- 26 Wasted Lives
- 27 Cholera, Ageing and Death
- 28 The Qur’an Betrayed
- 29 British English and Holy Arabic
- 30 The Name of Marx
- 31 The Brush of History
- Afterword: Living in Resistance
- Copyright
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