Food for Our Grandmothers: Writings by Arab-American and Arab-Canadian Feminists

This is an excellent anthology of arab-american feminist writings, each essay and poem discussing how it feels to be an Arab-American woman growing up in the US.As an Arab-American woman, I felt comforted and empowered by these writings.

As an Arab-American woman growing up in the United States, I found this book to be very refreshing. I noticed as a child in America that Arab women were either perceived as very docile and covered from head to toe or as whores that danced seductively for men only to have alternative plans to get ahead as in the case of the book One Thousand and One Arabian Nights which I read when I was younger. either way, Arab women were not seen in a good light by Western culture. This is a book that presents Arab women and women all over the world as thinking, intelligent, and talented beings that deserve a say on today's social issues and women in society in general. I actually went to a reading that featured the poets in the book as a way to promote the book in 1995 and found myself to be proud of who and what I am. I recommend this book to any women (or men) that are of Arab or Western decent. You will not be bored, that I can assure you. Thank you.