Essays on Woman at Point Zero

In her essay “From the Women’s Prison: Third World Women’s Narratives of Prison,” Barbara Harlow argues that the solidarity that transcends race, gender, class, and other social categories is a vital component in the fight against oppressive forces. She also claims that Firdaus’s affiliation with...

Introduction In our country, the capital itself is known to be one of the most dangerous cities to live in. Many protests took place all over the country against the lame status of law and order. After that, the ruling body came up with provisions...

In Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi explores the struggles that women face in societies. The protagonist, Firdaus, faces years of discrimination from men throughout the text. The assumed dominance that men take on is shown through their oppressive behavior and the perceived subservience...

Women at Point Zero is a novel that tells the story of a prostitute, Firdaus. She is waiting in jail for her death sentence. She experiences sexual harassment which causes her traumas throughout her life in Egypt. The title of the story, Women at Point...

Woman at Point Zero tells a tale of a reluctant prostitute who is sent to prison in Cairo, Egypt for murdering her pimp Marzouk and is preparing to be murdered. Border Crossing is very similar it recounts to the narrative of how women are treated...

In both A Doll’s House and Woman at Point Zero, the female protagonists are forced to suppress their identities. Henrik Ibsen and Nawal El-Saadawi hide the individualities of Nora and Firdaus in their play and novel respectively from the other characters, however, the audience are...

In the novel “Woman at Point Zero” the topic of FGM also known as female genital mutilation was brought up several times. This was strange for me as I myself had never heard or known about this practice as I thought that circumcision was only...