Woman's Body, Woman's Word: Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic WritingWoman's voice and body are closely entwined in the Arabo Islamic tradition, argues Fedwa Malti Douglas in this pioneering book. Spanning the ninth through twentieth centuries and covering a wide range of texts from courtly anectdote to mystical and philosophical treatises, from works of geography to autobiography this study reveals how woman's access to literary speech has remained mediated through her body. Malti Douglas first analyzes classical