The novel exists, if not as a provocation to direct action, at least as a terrible warning to men – and members of other genders – and hence as a trigger of radical change. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry. This paper explores degrees of feminist radicalism as well as developments in African feminist thought, before considering Woman at Point Zero as an example of the radical extreme whose time may have come. Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: ) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. So radical is Woman at Point Zero that it appears to advocate androcide as a response to patriarchy, which, to Firdaus, represents multiple types of abuse and injustice, including capitalism. The protagonist of Saadawi’s novel, Firdaus, who discovers her true vocation in the action of killing a man, matches and outstrips the anger of these younger feminists. The novel is based on Saadawis meeting with a female. Woman at Point Zero Audible Audiobook Unabridged Nawal el Saadawi (Author), Laura Hanna (Narrator), & 1 more 1,048 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Nawal El Saadawis Woman at Point Zero is a work of creative non-fiction, based on Saadawis interview with a female prisoner on death row for killing a man. However, a change is underway in the attitudes of younger African feminists, especially in South Africa, as the recent #MenAreTrash and #AmINext hashtags and protests about rape culture have demonstrated. Woman at Point Zero is a novel by Nawal El Saadawi written in 1975 and published in Arabic in 1977. 20 th-century African feminisms, under different names and descriptions, generally advocated a moderate approach to gender relations, refusing to exclude or stigmatize men. The Times All the men I did get to know filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

About This Book An unforgettable, unmissable book for the new global feminist. Woman at Point Zero, by Nawal El Saadawi, has been neglected by African feminist commentary, probably because of its radicalism. Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi, Sherif Hetata.

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi