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

Badran, Margot

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 069103706X ISBN 13 : 9780691037066

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 069103706X
• ISBN 13: 9780691037066
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible