Margot Badran

Opening the gates: an anthology of arab feminist writing - Margot Badran

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Praise for the first edition: 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.

Opening the Gates succeeds not because of its methodology, but because of the stories the women tell.

--Voice Literary Supplement.

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