May her likes be multiplied : biography and gender politics in Egypt /
This study explores the Arabic tradition of life-writing in Egypt. It examines biographical works by women and uses examples of "famous women" biographies - including Joan of Arc and Jane Austen - to demonstrate how these narratives prescribed complex role models for middle-class girls
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Scattered pearls and mistresses of seclusion: Zaynab Fawwāz, Arabic biographical writing, and a canon of female visibility
- Siting biograpHy: a politics of address
- Exemplar and exception: biography in the journal for women
- May our daughters listen: readers, writers, teachers
- Catherine the Great's embroidery and Maria Mitchell's stewpot: discursive domesticities
- Jeanne D'Arc, Egyptian nationalist: community, identity, and difference
- From sober to salacious: women's biography as spectacle
- Famous wombs and women's memories: gender nation and the life writing in today's Egypt.