About this Series; Foreword; Preface: The Gift; 1 Allah and McDonald's; 2 The Cry in the Night; 3 God Above, Husband Below; 4 Thank God for Our Calamities; 5 Flying with the Butterflies; 6 Killing the Bridegroom; 7 Daughter of the Sea; 8 My Revolutionary Father; 9 The Lost Servant-Girl; 10 The Village of Forgotten Employees; 11 God Hid behind the Coat-Stand; 12 The Ministry of Nauseation; 13 Dreaming of Pianos; 14 To the Circus; 15 The Singing Man; 16 The Whiskered Peasant; 17 Uncles, Suitors and Other Bloodsuckers; 18 A Stove for My Mother; 19 Coming to Cairo
Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. For her, writing and action have been inseparable and this is reflected in some of the most evocative and disturbing novels ever written about Arab women. A Daughter of Isis is the autobiography of this extraordinary woman. In it she paints a sensuously textured portrait of the childhood that produced the freedom fighter
