Wounding Words

From award-winning author, Evelyne Accad, Wounding Words tells the story of Hayate, a young student in Tunisia, as she struggles to cope under the everyday injustices around her. Finding comfort in her new friends, she becomes determined to work together and imagine a better life for the nation's women.

'I learned to demystify the world of men at a very young age... Some of my illiterate cousins had died under the blows of husbands and I said I would never accept that fate.'

Tunisia is the most democratic and inclusive country in the Arab world - at least, that's what hopeful student Hayate has been told. Yet what she finds when she arrives is a starkly different reality.

Finding solace in her journal, she writes about her experiences as a feminist scholar living in Tunisia, exploring the choices available to the women around her and questioning how they can find new ways of relating to men and to each other.

Thought-provoking and intelligently written, Accad encapsulates diverging facets of feminism as they exist across the world, asking how women everywhere can live day-to-day by its values.