Screen LibraryFeminists, islam, and nation : gender and the making of modern egypt /
The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how E...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[1995] ©1995 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Course Book. |
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The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that "feminism is Western" and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half of this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400821433 |
| Index Number: | HQ1793 |
| CLC: | D444.119 |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: RISING FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS -- PART TWO: THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT -- PART THREE: THE WIDENING CIRCLE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. |