Memoirs from the Women's Prison by Nawal El Saadawi, Marilyn Booth

Memoirs from the Women's Prison

Literature of the Middle East

Nawal El Saadawi, Marilyn Booth with Marilyn Booth (Translator)

256 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Often likened to Rigoberta Menchu and Nadine Gordimer, Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. Director of Health and Education in Cairo, she was summarily dismissed from her post in 1972 for her political writing and acti...

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