Rebelling against the contraints of family and society, a young
Egyptian woman decides to study medicine, becoming the only woman
in a class of men. Her encounters with the other students mdash; as
well as the male and female corpses in the autopsy room intensify
her dissatisfaction with and search for identity. She realizes men
are not gods as her mother had taught her, that science cannot
explain everything, and that she cannot be satisfied by living a
life purely of the mind. After a brief and unhappy marriage, she
throws herself into her work, becoming a successful physician, but
at the same time, she becomes aware of injustice and hypocrisy in
society. Fulfillment and love come to her at last in a wholly
unexpected way. ". . . Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal el
Saadawi, one of the leading Egyptian feminist writers, reveals the
contradictions embedded in women's self-oppressive struggle against
patriarchy." Khadidiatau Gueye, Research in African Literatures
(Indiana University Press) Nawal el Saadawi, born in 1931 in Kafr
Tahla, Egypt, is an Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, author, and
activist. She is the founder and president of the Arab Women's
Solidarity Association and co-founder of the Arab Association for
Human Rights. In 2004 she won the North-South Prize from the
Council of Europe. In 2005 she won the inana International Prize in
Belgium. In 2010 she won the Sean MacBride Peace Prize from the
International Peace Bureau. She has written and published other
novels, memoirs, plays, non-fiction, and short stories including
Woman at Point Zero , The Hidden Face of Eve, and The Fall of the
Imam.
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