Gender Mediation Discourse and the Prospect of Sustainable Peace in Nawal El Saadawi’s The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyse Nawal El Saadawi’s critical ideas regarding gender mediation in The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. It is to show how she negotiates discourse to encourage dialogue between men and women to construct a balanced society that encourages participatory development. It specifically explores her ideas that level criticism against the unjust/inhuman treatment of women in the Egyptian society thereby calling for a change of attitude towards women, aiming to end sexism, oppression and exploitation of women by patriarchy. As methodological and theoretical approaches, the study is a textual analysis sustained by an African Feminist critical approach developed by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie and Flora Nwapa.