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Woman's body, woman's word: gender and discourse in Arabo-Islamic writing

Fedwa Malti-Douglas c1991 © Princeton University Press
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  • 9780691194653 (ebook)
  • 9780691014883 (paper)
  • 9780691068565 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page ix)
  • Note on Translation, Transcription, and Abbreviation (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • Chapter 1. Narration and Desire: Shahrazâd (page 11)
  • Chapter 2. The Anecdotal Woman (page 29)
  • Chapter 3. Sacred History as Misogyny (page 54)
  • Chapter 4. Flight from the Female Body: Ibn Tufayl's Male Utopia (page 67)
  • Chapter 5. Sexual Geography, Asexual Philosophy (page 85)
  • Chapter 6. Nawâl al-Sa'dâwî and the Escape from the Female Body: From Handicap to Gender (page 111)
  • Chapter 7. Nawâl al-Sa'dâwî and Empowerment through Medicine (page 130)
  • Chapter 8. Subverting the Male Body: 'Abla al-Ruwaynî and the Poetics of Cancer (page 144)
  • Chapter 9. Problematic Birth: Fadwâ Tûqân and the Politics of Autobiography (page 161)
  • Works Cited (page 179)
  • Index (page 195)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAL 24.2 (Jul. 1993): 205-207 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4183306
IJMES 25.2 (May 1993): 331-333 http://www.jstor.org/stable/164670
SP 68.4 (Oct. 1993): 1169-1170 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2865562
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