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Description: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."--Ms."Opening the Gates succeeds not because of its methodology, but because of the stories the women tell."--Voice Literary SupplementWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing. To get started finding Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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."--Ms."Opening the Gates succeeds not because of its methodology, but because of the stories the women tell."--Voice Literary SupplementWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing. To get started finding Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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