No Arab woman inspires as much emotion as Nawal El Saadawi. No woman in the Middle East has been the subject of more polemic. Certainly, no Arab woman s pen has violated as many sacred enclosures as that of Nawal El Saadawi. Is it any wonder that many an Arab male intellectual h…
Dit is wellicht de eerste grondige studie gewijd aan de vooraanstaande Arabische feministe en schrijfster Nawal El Sadaawi. Bedoeling is na te gaan of en waarom El Sadaawi's proza niet alleen polemische retoriek maar ook literatuur is. De auteur besteedt veel aandacht aan de sit…
Men, Women, and God(s) is a pioneering study of the Arab world's leading feminist and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Author of plays, memoirs, and such novels as Woman at Point Zero and The Innocence of the Devil, El Saadawi has become well known in the West …
Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society was debated in Western cu…
Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society was debated in Western cu…
"The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate ar…
"The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the contributors aim to incorporate ar…