Feminists, Islam, and Nation

Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-04-21
Mått:197 x 254 x 28 mm
Vikt:539 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Princeton University Press
ISBN:9780691026053

Utforska kategorier

Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Margot Badran is Professor of Women's Studies and History at Oberlin College. A specialist in the Middle East, she translated, edited, and introduced Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, Huda Shaarawi and is coeditor of Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing.

Recensioner i media

"Most accounts of modern Egyptian history focus on and are written by men. This one is different--and welcome. It traces the development of Egyptian nationalist sentiment by concentrating on the emergence of Egyptian feminism, [from] the rise of 'feminist consciousness' [to] the creation of explicitly political feminist organizations."--Foreign Affairs "Badran ... challenge[s] the notion that feminism is only a Western creation and that it is incompatible with Islam... This new study will be respected for its high level of scholarship and its sophisticated analysis."--Choice

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceNote on Transliteration and TranslationAbbreviationsIntroduction3Pt. 1Rising Feminist Consciousness29Ch. 1Two Lives in Changing Worlds31Ch. 2Claiming Public Space47Ch. 3Thinking Gender61Ch. 4Egypt for Which Egyptians?74Pt. 2The Feminist Movement89Ch. 5The House of the Woman91Ch. 6City Sisters, Country Sisters111Ch. 7Recasting the Family124Ch. 8Educating the Nation142Ch. 9Women Have Always Worked165Ch. 10Traffic in Women192Ch. 11Suffrage and Citizenship207Pt. 3The Widening Circle221Ch. 12Arab Feminism223Notes251Bibliography317Index339