Mudhakkirāt ṭabībah
by Nawal El Saadawi
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"Rebelling against the contraints of family and society, a young Egyptian woman decides to study medicine, becoming the only woman in a class of men. Her encounters with the other students- as well as the male and female corpses in the autopsy room- intensify her dissatisfaction with and search for identity. She realizes men are not gods as her mother had taught her, that science cannot explain everything, and that she cannot be satisfied by living a life purely of the mind. After a brief and unhappy marriage, she throws herself into her work, becoming a successful physician, but at the same time, she becomes aware of injustice and hypocrisy in society. Fulfillment and love come to her at last in a wholly unexpected way."--BOOK JACKET.
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Physicians, biography, Women physicians, Women physicians, fiction, Fiction, general, Women physicians--egypt--fiction, Women, Women--arab countries--fiction, Arabic literature, Arabic literature--20th century, Literature--translations into english, Pj7862.a3 m813 1989, 892/.736, Fiction, Literature, Translations into English| Edition | Availability |
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Memoirs of a woman doctor: a novel
1989, City Lights Books
in English
- 1st City Lights Books ed.
0872862232 9780872862234
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