The Body in Nawāl al-Sa‘dāwī’s Writing Practice Between Fiction and Science Communication: Imra’tāni fī Imra’ (1975, Two Women in One, 1985) and Al-Mar’a wa-‘l-Jins (1969, Woman and Sex) as case studies

dāwī’s literary and scientific work, focusing on her novel Imra’tāni fī Imra’ (1975, Two Women in One, 1985) and her non-fictional feminist-medical text Al-Mar’a wa-‘l-Jins (1969, Woman and Sex). Drawing from feminist theory, particularly the concept of “embodied writing” by Luce Irigaray and Hélène Cixous, the paper explores how al-Saʿdāwī subverts patriarchal narratives by re-inscribing female corporeality as a site of resistance, knowledge, and subjectivity. rough the use of literary tropes connected to the sensibility of the transnational difference feminism, and through clinical discourse, she challenges the ideological and epistemological frameworks surrounding female anatomy, sexuality, and menstruation, revealing the body as a key battleground for feminist critique. e article also interrogates the hybrid nature of al- Saʿdāwī’s prose, blending fiction, autobiography, and medical science to dismantle cultural taboos and promote a transnational feminist epistemology.