The Hidden Face of Eve
Women in the Arab World
The Hidden Face of Eve
Women in the Arab World
Description
Bloomsbury presents The Hidden Face of Eve by Nawal El Saadawi, read by Raghad Chaar.
This powerful non-fiction 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.
Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt, witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, including female circumcision, drove her to give voice to this suffering. She goes on to explore the causes of the situation through a discussion of the historical role of Arab women in religion and literature. Saadawi argues that the veil, polygamy and legal inequality are incompatible with the essence of Islam or any human faith.
The Hidden Face of Eve remains a classic of modern Arab writing.
Table of Contents
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
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
Product details
| Published | Jul 11 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Audiobook |
| Duration | 13 hours and 24 minutes |
| ISBN | 9781350436305 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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