Opening the Gates Second Edition by Margot Badran PAPERBACK 9780253217035

Indiana University Press

Praise for the first edition: \""An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces\u2014essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches\u2014by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign concept.\"" \u2014Booklist \""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.\"" \u2014Doris 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.\""\u2014Publishers Weekly \""This impressive collection of writings by Arab women . . . represent[s] a powerful series of\n\nOpening the Gates, Second Edition\nAn Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery u;