| Author/Contributor(s): | Badran, Margot ; Cooke, Miriam |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Date: | 09/21/2004 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces--essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches--by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign concept. --Booklist
Anyone interested in good writing should read [Opening the Gates]. Here are first-class stories with the energy and freshness we expect from a beginning. --Doris Lessing, The Independent
This collection of stories, speeches, essays, poems and memoirs bears fierce testimony to a tradition of brave Arab feminist writing in the face of subjugation by a Muslim patriarchy.--Publishers Weekly
This impressive collection of writings by Arab women . . . represent[s] a powerful series of vignettes by women who were both insightful and gifted, into the lives of women who have lived 'behind the veil' over the last 100 years.--Arab Book World
An expression of indigenous, intrepid feminism in the Arab world.--Ms.
Opening the Gates succeeds not because of its methodology, but because of the stories the women tell.--Voice Literary Supplement