She spent one year in Qanatir Prison-the same prison she wrote about in Woman at Point Zero in 1975-but was released after military officers assassinated Sadat. In 1981, Saadawi helped launch the feminist magazine Confrontation, which led President Anwar Sadat-who had already considered Saadawi a dangerous public figure-to order Saadawi’s arrest. During this time, she wrote and published Woman at Point Zero based upon meeting Firdaus as a part of Saadawi’s case studies of women at Qanatir Prison. Saadawi then transitioned to researching women’s neurosis for a prominent medical university, and then served as an adviser for the United Nations.
Although the controversial feminist book was widely successful in Egypt and abroad, it cost Saadawi both her directorship and the journal.
In 1972, while working as a public health director and editor of a prominent health journal, Saadawi published Women and Sex, which catalogued the various ways that patriarchal society dominates women and violates their personal agency. After two brief marriages, she married a prominent communist activist in 1964, whom had previously spent 13 years as a political prisoner. As a physician, she realized that many women’s physical and psychological ills were rooted in class oppression and gendered oppression. Saadawi studied in Cairo, where she graduated as a doctor in 1955. Both of Sadaawi’s parents died early, leaving her as the sole guardian for her younger siblings. At six years old, her father had her circumcised yet also provided her an education and encouraged her to think and speak forthrightly. Saadawi was born the second of nine children, to a family that was progressive, yet slave to certain traditions.
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