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The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World

The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World - Paperback

by Nawal El Saadawi
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nawal El SaadawiPublish date:2024-06-27Pages:456
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9780755651528ISBN-10:755651529UPC:9780755651528Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle EastBook Topic:Egypt (see also AncientSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.40 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCG1C58GMN

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9780755651528ISBN-10:755651529UPC:9780755651528Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle EastBook Topic:Egypt (see also AncientSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 1.40 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCG1C58GMN
Nawal El Saadawi was born in a village outside Cairo, Egypt, in 1931. A trained medical doctor, she wrote landmark works on the oppression of Arab women including Woman at Point Zero (1973), God Dies by the Nile (1976) and The Hidden Face of Eve (1977). After being imprisoned by Anwar Sadat's government for criticising the regime, she founded the Arab Women's Solidarity Association in 1982, before being forced into exile in later life due to death threats by religious extremists. She returned to Egypt in 1996, running for president in 2005 until government persecution forced her to withdraw. Saadawi died in Egypt in 2021.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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