TY - BOOK AU - Saʻdāwī,Nawāl TI - A daughter of Isis: the early life of Nawal El Saadawi SN - 9781848132320 (pbk.) : AV - PJ7862.A3 A3 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - London, New York PB - Zed Books KW - Saʻdāwī, Nawāl. KW - Saʻdāwī, Nawāl as- KW - Women social reformers KW - Egypt KW - Biography KW - Women authors, Egyptian KW - 20th century KW - Authors, Egyptian KW - Social reformers N1 - Originally published: 1999; Includes bibliographical references and index; Allah and McDonald's -- The cry in the night -- God above, husband below -- THank God for our calamities -- Flying with the butterflies -- Killing the bridegroom -- Daughter of the sea -- My revolutionary father -- The lost servant girl -- The village of forgotten employees -- God hid behind the coat-stand -- The ministry of nauseation -- Dreaming of pianos -- To the circus -- The singing man -- The whiskered peasant -- Uncles, suitors and other blood suckers -- A stove for my mother -- Coming to Cairo -- The long, strong bones of a horse -- Love and the hideous cat -- Art thieves -- Mad aunts and abandoned babies -- The house of desolation -- The secret communist -- Wasted lives -- Cholera, ageing and death -- The Qur ̕an betrayed -- British English and Holy Arabic -- The name of Marx -- The brush of history ER -