Nawal El Saadawi is one of the world's leading feminist authors. In 1981 she was imprisoned by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State" and was not released until after his assassination. This book offers both first hand witness to women's resistance to state violence and insights into the formation of women's community.
"If Kafka had been a feminist, his prisoner might have had Nawal el Sa'adawi's feistiness, maybe, like her, he would have hoed a prison garden, led veiled and unveiled cellmates in rebellious calisthenics, strategized with a murderess to foil state illogic. This book gives me hope, even makes me laugh."-Cynthia Enloe, author of The Morning After
