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Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
9781400821433
DOI
10.1515/9781400821433
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1356334 bytes)
Edition
Course Book
Pages
368\368
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-24 00:07:51

Description

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.

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