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Opening the gates: a century of Arab feminist writing
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication Date
c1990
Language
English
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From the Book
Growing up to be a woman writer in Lebanon / Etel Adnan
Warda al-Turk / Warda al-Yaziji
Who are you, Claire Gebeyli? / Nadia Tueni
Difficult journey, mountainous journey / Fadwa Tuqan
Farewell, bethrothal, wedding (c. 1945) / Huda Shaarawi
Amina / Shirley Saad
The protected one / Samira Azzam
Seventy years later / Ulfa Idelbi
Lecture on clitoridectomy to the midwives of Touil / Zainaba
Who'll be the man? ; Honour / Alifa Rifaat
I saw her and that's enough ; In a contemporary house / Khairiya Saqqaf
Hasan's wives / Wadida Wassef
People / Nadia Guendouz
Women, nationalism and religion in the Algerian struggle / Marie-Aimée Helie-Lucas
The eyes in the mirror / Daisy al-Amir
The silk bands / Noha Radwan.
The results of circumstances in words and deeds ; Family reform / Aisha al-Taimuriya
Bad deeds of men : injustice / Bahithat al-Badiya
Our constitution : we the liberated women / Ghada Samman
September birds / Emily Nasrallah
A girl called apple / Hanan al-Shaikh
The house of obedience / Ihsan Assal
The excised / Evelyne Accad
House of arrest / Andrée Chedid
Personal papers / May Muzaffar
My mother / Fadhma Amrouche
Rima / Samar Attar
Eyes / Nawal al-Saadawi
The dawn of the Arabic Women's Press / Hind Nawfal
Fair and equal treatment / Zainab Fawwaz
A lecture in the club of the Umma Party / Bahithat al-Badiya
Warda al-Yaziji / May Ziyada
The elopement and the impossible joy / Qut al-Qulub
The effects of books and novels and morals ; The differences between men and women / Nabawiya Musa.
Unveiling and veiling ; The young woman and the shaikhs / Nazira Zain al-Din
Double standard / Saiza Nabarawi
The voice of happiness / Zoubeida Bittari
The gate of heaven is open / Farida Benlyazid
Two faces, one woman / Nuha Samara
From Tumbling on the snow / Huda Naamani
Who's cleverer, man or woman? / Fatima Mernissi
My life / Chaibia
Eight eyes / Sufi Abdallah
Pan-Arab feminism / Huda Shaarawi
Arab women's intellectual heritage / Zahiya Dughan
We Egyptian women / Inji Aflatun
Islam and the constitutional rights of women / Duriya Shafiq
Feast of unveiling ; Why Reverend Shaikh? / Amina Said
Challenges facing young women in the twentieth century / Nahid Toubia
Legal rights of the Egyptian women / Group of Egyptian Women.
An unveiled voice / Amatalrauf al-Sharki
Introduction to Nawal al-Saadawi's Ferdaous / Assia Djebar
Reflections of a feminist / Nawal al-Saadawi.
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9780253311214
9780253205773
9780253205773
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