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Author Sa°dåawåi, Nawåal

Title The hidden face of Eve : women in the Arab world / Nawal El Saadawi ; translated and edited by Sherif Hetata
Published London : Zed Books, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 212 pages)
Contents Front Cover; More Praise; About the Author; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Foreword by Ronak Husni ; 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 ; A Legally Sound Marriage Contract ; Affiliation Through Legalized Adultery
Confession or Acknowledgement of the Man Trustworthy Witnesses ; 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 ; Back Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Women -- Arab countries
Sex customs -- Arab countries
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Sex customs
Women
Arab countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783607495
1783607491
9781783607501
1783607505