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Title

A daughter of Isis : the early life of Nawal El Saadawi / Nawal El Saadawi ; translated by Sherif Hetata ; with a foreword by Bettina Aptheker.

Author

Saʻdāwī, Nawāl

Publication

London, Eng. ; New York, NY : Zed Books, 2009.

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Description

xii, 354 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Nawal has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accpet the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. This is the autobiography of this extraordinary woman.

Subject

• Saʻdāwī, Nawāl
• Women social reformers > Egypt > Biography
• Women authors, Egyptian > 20th century > Biography
• Authors, Egyptian > 20th century > Biography
• Social reformers > Egypt > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Originally published: 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Arabic.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Allah and McDonald's -- The cry in the night -- God above, husband below -- THank God for our calamities -- Flying with the butterflies -- Killing the bridegroom -- Daughter of the sea -- My revolutionary father -- The lost servant girl -- The village of forgotten employees -- God hid behind the coat-stand -- The ministry of nauseation -- Dreaming of pianos -- To the circus -- The singing man -- The whiskered peasant -- Uncles, suitors and other blood suckers -- A stove for my mother -- Coming to Cairo -- The long, strong bones of a horse -- Love and the hideous cat -- Art thieves -- Mad aunts and abandoned babies -- The house of desolation -- The secret communist -- Wasted lives -- Cholera, ageing and death -- The Qur ̕an betrayed -- British English and Holy Arabic -- The name of Marx -- The brush of history.

ISBN

• 9781848132313 (hbk.)
• 184813231X (hbk.)
• 9781848132320 (pbk.)
• 1848132328 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 317751950
• SCSB-12737138

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library