| Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt Revised Edition Contributor(s): Badran, Margot (Author) |
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ISBN: 069102605X ISBN-13: 9780691026053 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $50.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 305.42 |
| Lexile Measure: 1490 |
| Series: Princeton Paperbacks |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.14" W x 9.3" (1.17 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |