Eloquently draws ties between the oppression of women and capitalistic patriarchy. Highlights the importance of women in the workforce and the necessity of financial independence in order to acheive social equality of the genders.

The information in the book is outdated as it was written in the early 1970s. Her views on homosexuality are lazy, especially since she is both a psychiatrist and gender and sexuality scholar. When the book was written, homosexuality was still generally considered a mental illness. But El Saadawi is not someone who accepts what the majority agree on (especially if it oppresses a certain demographic, due to her Marxist ideologies), so it is all the more confusing why her views on homosexuality are so primitive.