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Violence
A lot
Significant violence against women including sexual violence, oppression, and degradation
Language
Barely any
Minimal language in the literary translation
Sexual Content
A lot
Explicit references to prostitution and sexual exploitation as survival under extreme oppression
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Profoundly heavy themes about women's oppression, the survival strategies forced on women, and the ultimate cost of resistance
What this book is about
A landmark of Arabic feminist literature in English translation. Violence includes the extreme violence of oppression, prostitution, and the systems that force women into degrading survival. Adults only.
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Sexual violence
Prostitution and exploitation
Oppression of women
Feminist literature
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