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My Men (Paperback)
Malika Mokeddem; Translated by Laura Rice, Karim Hamdy
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A cross between kiss-and-tell and curse-and-tell, Malika Mokeddem's
memoir of the men in her life presents a mosaic of relationships
defining what it is to be a woman, an immigrant, a doctor, and a
citizen of an uncertain world. From her childhood days in French
colonial Algeria to her later years as a doctor in Paris and a
writer in Montpellier, Mokeddem traces the path of a brilliant girl
in a world of men. Anorexia, insomnia, financial independence,
escapism in books, atheism, self-imposed exile, painting, and the
poetics of free love--such are the various ways in which she has
responded to discrimination. Mokeddem hauntingly describes how her
literary and medical careers blossomed along with her sexuality and
her desire to escape the gender bias that shackled Algerian
tradition. At once a scathing critique of Algerian patriarchy and a
soaring tribute to the men who opened a window on the world,
Mokeddem's story is a fascinating portrait of gender as it is
actually felt, lived, and never left behind.
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