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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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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