The hidden face of Eve : women in the Arab world /

Main Author: Saʻdāwī, Nawāl
Other Authors: Ḥatātah, Sharī
Format: Book
Language:English
Arabic
Published: London, England : Zed Books, 2007.
Edition:New ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The question that no one would answer
  • 2. Sexual agression 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
  • 11. The thirteenth rib of Adam Chapter 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
  • 15. The role of women in Arab history
  • 16. Love and sex in the life of the Arabs Chapter
  • 17. The heroine in Arab literature
  • 18. Arab pioneers of women's liberation
  • 19. Work and women
  • 20. Marriage and divorce.