Book · 1977 · Fiction

Woman at Point Zero

Name: Woman at Point Zero
Author: Nawal El Saadawi

Zed Books · 128 pages

★ 6.0 editorial score

In an Egyptian prison a woman awaiting execution tells a psychiatrist her life: genital mutilation, forced marriage, prostitution, and the man she killed. El Saadawi drew it from a real condemned prisoner.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Patriarchy Oppression of women

Setting

Egypt

Time

1977

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Quote · 1869

“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.”

John Stuart Mill

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“I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.”

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“Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customers, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.”

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