The Hidden Face of Eve : Women in the Arab World (Paperback)

Foreword by Joumana Haddad Preface to the English Edition Introduction Part I The Mutilated Half 1 The Question that No One Would Answer 2 Sexual Aggression against the Female Child 3 The Grandfather with Bad Manners 4 The Injustice of Justice 5 The Very Fine Membrane Called 'Honour' 6 Circumcision of Girls 7 Obscurantism and Contradiction 8 The Illegitimate Child and the Prostitute 9 Abortion and Fertility 10 Distorted Notions about Femininity, Beauty and Love Part II Women in History 11 The Thirteenth Rib of Adam 12 Man the God, Woman the Sinful 13 Woman at the Time of the Pharaohs 14 Liberty to the Slave, But Not for the Woman Part III The Arab Woman 15 The Role of Women in Arab History 16 Love and Sex in the Life of the Arab 17 The Heroine in Arab Literature Part IV Breaking Through 18 Arab Pioneers of Women's Liberation 19 Work and Women 20 Marriage and Divorce An Afterword Notes