A daughter of Isis : the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi / translated from the Arabic by Sherif Hetata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saʻdāwī, Nawāl.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Saʻdāwī, Nawāl.

Women authors, Arab--Egypt--Biography.

Women authors, Arab.

Women physicians--Egypt--Biography.

Women physicians.

Egypt.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books ;. New York : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, c c1999.

Summary:

Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. In her life and in her writings, this struggle against sexual discrimination has always been linked to a struggle against all forms of oppression: religious, racial, colonial and neo-colonial. In 1969, she published her first work of non-fiction, "Women and Sex"; in 1972, her writings and her struggles led to her dismissal from her job. From then on there was no respite; imprisonment under Sadat in 1981 was the culmination of the long war she had fought for Egyptian women's social and intellectual freedom. "A Daughter of Isis" is the autobiography of this extraordinary woman.

ISBN:

1856496791 hb

1856496805 pb

OCLC:

41299208