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In an interview with Saadawi, an Egyptian psychiatrist, scholar, & novelist, Western feminist approaches to the oppression of women in Middle Eastern, African, & Asian countries are criticized, as is the nature of appropriate leadership in this area. Manipulation & misrepresentation of ideas across cultural borders is also commented on in the context of the role of genital mutilation in the work of Third World feminists. Various ideas put forward in Saadawi's work are discussed, & its reception in Egypt is briefly described. D. M. Smith

Short story about a village girl's wedding night by a leading Egyptian champion of women's rights 'Isn't the man who slaughters his sinned sister the same who makes sin with the sisters of men? Isn't the wolf who fools the innocent child the same as the father who locks and ties up his daughter? Isn't the man who is unfaithful to his wife the same man tho kills his wife to protect his honour? Isn't the wife who is unfaithful to her husband the same woman who gossips about other women? Isn't the society that broadcasts the love songs the same society that puts the noose around everyone that falls in love?'

A memoir of arrest and interrogation by one of Egypt's leading feminists.