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Classes of ladies of cloistered spaces : writing feminist history through biography in fin de siècle Egypt /
Explores the writing and influence of the first Arabic-language global biographical dictionary of women. Zaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) was as a forceful voice in support of women's rights to education and work choices in colonial-era Egypt. Her volume of 453 women's lives, al-Durr al-manthur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Pearls Scattered: An Introduction; II A Women's World History, in the World of Arabic Letters: A Reader's View; III Founding Mothers, Speaking Sisters: Lineaments of Community in History; IV Writerly Pursuits: A Compiler's Archive; V A Beckoning Compass, Circulating Lives: The Bustani Encyclopedia and Other Nineteenth-century Sources; VI Interlocutors? Men Authoring Women's History in the 1890s; VII Framing a History of the Present:or, Did the Pearls Scatter to the World's Fair?
- VIII Violent Romances: The Bodily Drama of Patriarchal TraumaAppendix I: Translations; Appendix II: List of Fawwaz's Pearls; Notes; Bibliography; Index.