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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, 1400821436
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
92 MB (96262298 bytes)
Pages
368\368
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 08:12:15

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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