The hidden face of Eve: women in the Arab world

Foreword

Preface to the English Edition

Introduction

Part I. The Mutilated Half

1. The Question that No One Would Answer

2. Sexual Aggression against the Eemale 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