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294 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
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Egyptians Arabs Women Physicians lcdgt |
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Authors lcsh |
| Summary |
"Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. For her, writing and action have been inseparable and this is reflected in some of the most evocative and disturbing novels ever written about Arab women." "Born in a small Egyptian village in 1931, she eluded the grasp of suitors, before whom she was displayed when she was still ten years old, and went on to qualify as a medical doctor. In 1969, she published her first work of non-fiction, Women and Sex; in 1972, her writings and her struggles led to her dismissal from her job. From then on there was no respite: imprisonment under Sadat in 1981 was the culmination of the long war she had fought for Egyptian women's social and intellectual freedom; in 1992, her name appeared on a death list issued by a fundamentalist group, after which she went into exile for five years. Since then, she has devoted her time to writing novels and essays and to her activities as a worldwide speaker on women's issues. A Daughter of Isis is the autobiography of this extraordinary woman."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Preface. The gift -- 1. Allah and McDonald's -- 2. The cry in the night -- 3. God above, husband below -- 4. We thank God for our calamities -- 5. Flying with 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. |
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Saʻdāwī, Nawāl.
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Women authors, Arab -- Egypt -- Biography.
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Women physicians -- Egypt -- Biography.
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Authors, Egyptian -- Biography.
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Physicians -- Egypt -- Biography.
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Women physicians.
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Physicians, Women (DNLM)D010822
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Egypt (DNLM)D004534
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Saʻdāwī, Nawāl. (OCoLC)fst00082521
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Women physicians. (OCoLC)fst01178296
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Women authors, Arab. (OCoLC)fst01177223
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Physicians. (OCoLC)fst01062841
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Authors, Egyptian. (OCoLC)fst01737543
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Egypt. (OCoLC)fst01208755
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Autobiografie (DE-588)4003939-0
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Biography (DNLM)D019215
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Autobiography (DNLM)D020493
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Ḥatātah, Sharīf, translator.
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Zed Books, publisher.
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| Added Title |
Autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Saʻdāwī, Nawāl. Daughter of Isis. London ; New York : Zed Books, 1999 (OCoLC)607445162 |
| ISBN |
1856496791 (hardcover) |
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9781856496797 (hardcover) |
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1856496805 (paperback) |
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9781856496803 (paperback) |
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