3rd World Essay

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of Public Health in 1958 (Speace 1). Since she began to write over twenty-five years ago, her books have concentrated on women (Hafez 450-451). In 1972, her first non-fiction book, Woman and Sex, evoked the antagonism of highly placed political and theological authorities. She was dismissed from the Ministry of Health and her position as editor of Health magazine due to the opposition (Speace 3). Saadawi also lost her status as Assistant General Secretary in the Medical Association in Egypt ("El-Saadawi, Nawal" 734). From 1973 to 1976, she worked on researching women and neurosis in the Ain Shams University's Faculty of Medicine. She also was a writer for the High Institute of Literature and Science in Cairo at this time. From 1979 to 1980 Saadawi was the United Nations Advisor for the Woman's Program in Africa (ECA) and Middle East (ECWA) (Speace 1).
Later in 1980, as a conclusion to the long war she had fought for Egyptian women's social and intellectual freedom, an ...

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about the book Woman at Point Zero, but a fair amount about the author Saadawi. Most of the critics all tend to agree that Saadawi is a freedom fighter. She fights for the rights of women. Kjeilen says that in the last years Saadawi's main projects are focusing on women and trying to liberate them economically from male dominance (Kjeilen 1). Kjeilen says that most of the work that Saadawi has been doing to this cause has taken place in rural Egypt (Kjeilen 1). Hafez says that Saadawi's creativity in literary are the direct result of her having "good causes and honorable intentions" (Hafez 451). Hafez also feels that Saadawi seeks to attain justice and battles for "her sisters' ...

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