It's a classic, and there are definitely some interesting ideas that I think have merit. But there are also a whole lot of bad research techniques that are pretty jarring, and in the copy that I had, no real citations. She'll mention an author and give a block quote, but not give enough detail to track down a source. In one section she went on at length about what a Greek writer said about the lifestyle of Egyptian women. The entire section had a really exaggerated feel that could easily be accounted for by the outsider perspective she used. And so on.