She goes on explore the causes of the situation through a discussion of the historical role of Arab women in religion and literature. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt, witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, inspired her to write in order to give voice to this suffering. It was the horrific female genital mutilation that she suffered aged only six, which first awakened Nawal el Saadawi's sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. This powerful account of brutality against women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago. Chapter 20 - Marriage and Divorce An Afterword.Chapter 18 - Arab Pioneers of Women's Liberation.Chapter 17 - The Heroine in Arab Literature Part IV - Breaking Through.Chapter 16 - Love and Sex in the Life of the Arabs.Chapter 15 - The Role of Women in Arab History.Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. Chapter 14 - Liberty to the Slave, But Not for the Woman Part III - The Arab Woman The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab world, Nawal El-Saadawi This powerful account of the oppression of women in the Muslim world remains as shocking today as when it was first published, more than a quarter of a century ago (1977).Chapter 13 - Woman at the Time of the Pharaohs.Chapter 12 - Man the God, Woman the Sinful.Chapter 11 - The Thirteenth Rib of Adam.Chapter 10 - Distorted Notions about Femininity, Beauty and Love Part II - Women in History.Chapter 8 - The Illegitimate Child and the Prostitute.Chapter 7 - Obscurantism and Contradiction.Chapter 5 - The Very Fine Membrane Called 'Honour'.Chapter 3 - The Grandfather with Bad Manners.Chapter 2 - Sexual Agression Against the Female Child.Chapter 1 - The Question that No One Would Answer.New Foreword by Ronak Husni Preface to the English Edition Introduction Part I - The Mutliated Half.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
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