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

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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 E...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Badran, Margot
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women.
Muslim women.
Feminism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Musulmanes > Égypte > Histoire.
Femmes > Égypte > Histoire.
Feminisme > Égypte > Histoire.
Muslim women > Egypt > History.
Women > Egypt > History.
Feminism > Egypt > History.
Egypt.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 th.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (368 pages).
ISBN:9781400821433

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