Opening the gates : an anthology of Arab feminist writing / edited by Margot Badran and Miriam Cooke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Badran, Margot.

cooke, miriam

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Arab countries.

Feminism.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

xlvii, 461 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2004]

Summary:

This second edition of Opening the Gates, the highly successful anthology of feminist writings by Arab women, includes a generous selection of texts produced since publication of the first edition in 1990. Themes that figure in the new work include sexuality and the body, war and violence, relationships, breaking through glass ceilings, cyber networking, migration, and the expanded use of Islamic discourse by Arab women. The new selections expand upon the themes of awareness, rejection, and activism that marked the multiple forms of Arab women's feminist expression over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Contents:

Awareness

Growing Up to Be a Woman Writer in Lebanon (1986) / Etel Adnan 3

Epistolary Poem to Warda al-Turk (1867) / Warda al-Yaziji 21

Who are you, Claire Gebeyli? (1968) / Nadia Tueni 23

Difficult Journey-Mountainous Journey (1984) / Fadwa Tuqan 26

Farewell, Betrothal and Wedding (c. 1945) / Huda Shaarawi 41

Amina (1985) / Shirley Saad 49

The Protected One (1967) / Samira Azzam 54

Seventy Years Later (1970) / Ulfa Idelbi 57

Lecture on Clitoridectomy to the Midwives of Touil, Mauritania (1987) / Zainaba 63

Who Will Be the Man? (1981) / Honour (1981) / Alifa Rifaat 72

I Saw Her and That's Enough (1981) / In a Contemporary House (1981) / Khairiya Saqqaf 84

Hasan's Wives (1970) / Wadida Wassef 92

People (1963) / Nadia Guendouz 102

Women, Nationalism and Religion in the Algerian Liberation Struggle (1987) / Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas 104

The Eyes in the Mirror (1981) / Daisy al-Amir 115

The Silk Bands (1988) / Noha Radwan 119

Rejection

The Results of Circumstances in Words and Deeds (1887/8) / Family Reform (1894/5) / Aisha Ismat al-Taimuriya 125

Bad Deeds of Men: Injustice (1909) / Bahithat al-Badiya 134

Our Constitution-We the Liberated Women (1961) / Ghada Samman 137

September Birds (1962) / Emily Nasrallah 144

A Girl Called Apple (1981) / Hanan al-Shaikh 155

The House of Obedience (1962) / Ihsan Assal 160

The Excised (1982) / Evelyne Accad 168

House of Arrest (1965) / Andree Chedid 174

Personal Papers (1973) / May Muzaffar 180

My Mother (1946) / Fadhma Amrouche 186

Rima (1988) / Samar Attar 191

Eyes (1988) / Nawal al-Saadawi 203

Activism

The Dawn of the Arabic Women's Press (1892) / Hind Nawfal 215

Fair And Equal Treatment (1891) / Zainab Fawwaz 220

A Lecture in the Club of the Umma Party (1909) / Bahithat al-Badiya 227

Warda al-Yaziji (1924) / May Ziyada 239

The Elopement and the Impossible Joy (1958) / Qut al-Qulub 244

The Effect of Books and Novels on Morals (1920) / The Difference between Men and Women (1920) / Nabawiya Musa 257

Unveiling and Veiling (1928) / The Young Woman and the Shaikhs (1928) / Nazira Zain al-Din 270

Double Standard (1925) / Saiza Nabarawi 279

The Voice of Happiness (1964) / Zoubeida Bittari 282

The Gate of Heaven is Open (1987) / Farida Benlyazid 296

Two Faces, One Woman (1980) / Nuha Samara 304

From Tumbling on the Snow (1982) / Huda Naamani 314

Who's Cleverer: Man or Woman? / Fatima Mernissi 317

My Life (1985) / Chaibia 328

Eight Eyes (1975) / Sufi Abdallah 332

Pan-Arab Feminism (1944) / Huda Shaarawi 337

Arab Women's Intellectual Heritage (1944) / Zahiya Dughan 341

We Egyptian Women (1949) / Inji Aflatun 343

Islam and the Constitutional Rights of Woman (1952) / Duriya Shafiq 352

Feast of Unveiling (1973) / Why, Reverend Shaikh? (1976) / Amina Said 357

Challenges Facing the Arab Woman at the End of the 20th Century (1987) / Nahid Toubia 366

Legal Rights of the Egyptian Woman (1988) / A Group of Egyptian Women 372

An Unveiled Voice (1988) / Amatalrauf al-Sharki 375

Introduction to Nawal al-Saadawi's Ferdaous (1983) / Assia Djebar 386

Transitions

Women's Rights Are Human Rights Are Islamic Rights (2003) / Amat al-Aleem Alsoswa 397

Egyptian Women Finally Get Their Due (2003) / Tahani al-Jibali 405

Testimonial of a Creative Woman (1996) / Latifa al-Zayyat 411

Road (1999) / Belongings (1999) / Confession (1999) / Spillage (1999) / Setting Sail (1999) / Huda Ablan 416

How to Become a Man (1998) / The First Letters (1998) / Ibtisam al-Mutawwakal 419

Documenting (1997) / Still (1997) / Nabila Zubair 422

From National Resistance to Feminist Activism (1991-92) / Kuwaiti Activists 424

Another Role for the Abaya (1994) / Layla al-Uthman 429

Sacred Narratives Linking Iraqi Shiite Women (2004) / Tayba Hassan, Al Khalifa Sharif 436

Bab al-Saha (1990) / Sahar Khalifa 446.

Notes:

Previous ed.: Bloomington, Ind.: Indian University Press; London: Virago, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0253344417 :

0253217032

OCLC:

56456591