The five influential women writers discussed in Seymour Jorn s timely work Radwa Ashour, Salwa Bakr, Nemat el Behairy, Etidal Osman, and Ebtihal Salem all emerged on the literary scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They came of age at a time when women s writing was attracting critical attention and more venues for publication were opening up. This widening platform enabled these writers to develop and mature as cultural critics. As a result, this generation of women writers achieved a successful blend of politically and socially committed literature with artistically innovative...