Nawal AI-Saadawi: Renowned Egyptian Feminist

nawal el saadawi & genre of "petroleum novel"

scholars have divided novels into various types based on differentcriteria including content, structure, place, etc. some novels have been writtenwith the key topic of oil and its relevant issues, thus having a specialautonomy which bans them to be placed under the novel category. therefore, anew name should be chosen for these novels, something which seems forgotten innovel categorization. usi...

Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival

In the last two decades one of the key questions that has occupied many feminist theorists is how should issues of historical and cultural specificity inform both the analytics and politics of any feminist project. Although this questioning has resulted in serious attempts at integrating issues of sexual, racial, class, and national difference within feminist theory, questions of religious diff...

Evolution to a Renowned International Journal

Since 1974 when the Journal of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons was first published, 179 issues have been published. Considering that the Korean Society of Plastic and Re-constructive Surgeons (KSPRS) was founded in 1966, it is certain that many forerunners in the Society made a great effort to publish the Journal in its embryonic stage. We have finally published six is...

Feminist Negotiations

Castrating the Authority in El Sadaawi’s play Isis

This paper on the Egyptian feminist playwright Nawal El Sadaawi’s play Isis (1986) seeks to explore the psychological and social dimensions of castration by applying the Slovenian Marxist and Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s ideas on symbolic castration, ideological fantasy and mask. The focus will be on Žižek’s understanding of Lacan’s ideas on symbolic castration. It will be proved that Ra...