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Woman's body, woman's word: gender and discourse in Arabo-Islamic writing
Fedwa Malti-Douglas-
Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements (page ix)
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Note on Translation, Transcription, and Abbreviation (page xi)
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Introduction (page 3)
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Chapter 1. Narration and Desire: Shahrazâd (page 11)
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Chapter 2. The Anecdotal Woman (page 29)
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Chapter 3. Sacred History as Misogyny (page 54)
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Chapter 4. Flight from the Female Body: Ibn Tufayl's Male Utopia (page 67)
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Chapter 5. Sexual Geography, Asexual Philosophy (page 85)
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Chapter 6. Nawâl al-Sa'dâwî and the Escape from the Female Body: From Handicap to Gender (page 111)
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Chapter 7. Nawâl al-Sa'dâwî and Empowerment through Medicine (page 130)
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Chapter 8. Subverting the Male Body: 'Abla al-Ruwaynî and the Poetics of Cancer (page 144)
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Chapter 9. Problematic Birth: Fadwâ Tûqân and the Politics of Autobiography (page 161)
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Works Cited (page 179)
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Index (page 195)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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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Published: c1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9780691068565 (hardcover)
- 9780691014883 (paper)
- 9780691194653 (ebook)