Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Note on Translation, Transcription, and Abbreviation XI
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER 1. Narration and Desire: Shahrazâd 11
7. CHAPTER 2. The Anecdotal Woman 29
8. CHAPTER 3. Sacred History as Misogyny 54
9. CHAPTER 4. Flight from the Female Body: Ibn Tufayl’s Male Utopia 67
10. CHAPTER 5. Sexual Geography, Asexual Philosophy 85
11. CHAPTER 6. Nawal al-Sa’dâwî and the Escape from the Female Body: From Handicap to Gender 111
12. CHAPTER 7. Nawal al-Sa’dâwî and Empowerment through Medicine 130
13. CHAPTER 8. Subverting the Male Body: ’Abla al-Ruwaynî and the Poetics of Cancer 144
14. CHAPTER 9. Problematic Birth: Fadwâ Tûqân and the Politics of Autobiography 161
15. Works Cited 179
16. Index 195