'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Badran translated and edited Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924 Cooke is the author of War's Other Voices: Women Writers in the Lebanese Civil War.Ĭopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

An editorial by Egyptian Amina Said laments the return of the veil. Egyptians Ihsan Assal's and Andree Chedid's fiction depicts, respectively, a husband who incarcerates his 'recalcitrant' young wife with the permission of the courts and a 60-year-old woman who plots the murder of her husband. And Egyptian Alifa Rifaat, who wrote in the secrecy of her bathroom until her husband's death, offers stories about a girl undergoing a clitoridectomy and about a bride who fears her husband will discover she isn't a virgin so she inserts powdered glass inside herself to draw blood on her wedding night. It must not be all cut off!') and to use antiseptics. Opening the Gates, Second Edition: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing Paperback Septemby Margot Badran (Editor), miriam cooke (Editor) 14 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback 31.24 24 Used from 1.66 23 New from 26. Zainaba (last name omitted), a nurse from Mauritania, West Africa, who herself underwent female circumcision, or clitoridectomy, says, 'It is not a sin if it is not done, but it is better if it is,' and exhorts a group of midwives to modify the disfigurement ('A woman with no clitoris is like a mud wall, a piece of cardboard, without spark, without goals, without desire.

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Opening the Gates by Margot Badran