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A Daughter of Isis : The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words / Nawal El Saadawi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- El Saadawi, Nawal, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- El Saadawi, Nawal, 1931-2021.
- El Saadawi, Nawal.
- Authors, Egyptian--Biography.
- Authors, Egyptian.
- Women physicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
- System Details:
- text file HTML
- Summary:
- In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old and escaping suitors at ten and her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine. Filled with warmth as well as critical reflection, this book reveals the early years of a remarkable life dedicated to the fight for justice and equality.
- Contents:
- Foreword Preface - The Gift 1. Allah and McDonalds 2. The Cry in the Night 3. God Above, Husband Below 4. We Thank God for our Calamities 5. Flying with the Butterflies 6. Killing the Bridegroom 7. Daughter of the Sea 8. My Revolutionary Father 9. The Lost Servant-Girl 10. The Village of Forgotten Employees 11. God Hid Behind the Coat-Stand 12. The Ministry of Nauseation 13. Dreaming of Pianos 14. To the Circus 15. The Singing Man 16. The Whiskered Peasant 17. Uncles, Suitors and other Bloodsuckers 18. A Stove for my Mother 19. Coming to Cairo 20. The Long, Strong Bones of a Horse 21. Love and the Hideous Cat 22. Art Thieves 23. Mad Aunts and Abandoned Babies 24. The House of Desolation 25. The Secret Communist 26. Wasted Lives 27. Cholera, Ageing and Death 28. The Qur'an Betrayed 29. British English and Holy Arabic 30. The Name of Marx 31. The Brush of History Afterword - Living in Resistance
- ISBN:
- 9780755651580
- 0755651588
- 9780755651597
- 0755651596
- 9780755651573
- 075565157X
- OCLC:
- 1429724514
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