May her likes be multiplied : biography and gender politics in Egypt /

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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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Booth, Marilyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Temas:
Women > Biography > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
Women > Political activity > Egypt > History.
Feminism > Egypt > History.
Biography.
Femmes > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Femmes > Activité politique > Égypte > Histoire.
Féminisme > Égypte > Histoire.
Biographies.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
Biography as a literary form
Feminism
Women > Biography
Women > Political activity
Biografische Literatur
Frauenliteratur
Geschichte 1879-1967.
Egypt
Ägypten
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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.

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