Often likened to Rigoberta Menchu and Nadine Gordimer, Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. Director of Health and Education in Cairo, she was summarily dismissed from her post in 1972 for her political writing and activities. In 1981 she was imprisoned by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State" and was not released until after his assassination. "Memoirs from the Women's Prison" offers both first-hand witness to women's resistance to state violence, and insights into the formation of women's community. Saadawi describes how political prisoners, both secular intellectuals and Islamic revivalists, forged alliances to demand better conditions and to maintain their sanity in the confines of their cramped cell.
- ISBN10 0520915399
- ISBN13 9780520915398
- Publish Date 19 October 1994 (first published 1 June 1986)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 204
- Language English