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About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword by Ronak Husni

Preface to the English Edition

Introduction

Part I: The Mutilated Half

1: The Question That No One Would Answer

2: Sexual Aggression Against the Female 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

A Legally Sound Marriage Contract

Affiliation Through Legalized Adultery

Confession or Acknowledgement of the Man

Trustworthy Witnesses

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

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