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Soft Force : Women in Egypt's Islamic Awakening /

In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country's public sphere. Soft Force examines the writings and activism of these wo...

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Autor principal: McLarney, Ellen Anne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Edición:Course Book.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction-The Islamic Public Sphere and the Subject of Gender: The Politics of the Personal
  • Part One: Women's Liberation in Islam
  • 1. The Liberation of Islamic Letters: Bint al-Shati ʾ's Literary License
  • 2. The Redemption of Women's Liberation: Reviving Qasim Amin
  • Part Two: Gendering Islamic Subjectivities
  • 3. Senses of Self: Niʿmat Sidqi's Theology of Motherhood
  • 4. Covering in the Public Eye: Visualizing the Inner I
  • Part Three: Politics of the Islamic Family
  • 5. The Islamic Homeland: Iman Mustafa on Women's Work
  • 6. Soft Force: Heba Raouf Ezzat's Politics of the Islamic Family
  • Epilogue-Fann wa-Fiṭra: Art and Instinct
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter