Feminists, Islam, and nation : gender and the making of modern Egypt / Margot Badran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badran, Margot.

Series:

ATLA Special Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Egypt--History.

Feminism.

Women--Egypt--History.

Women.

Muslim women--Egypt--History.

Muslim women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: RISING FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS

PART TWO: THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT

PART THREE: THE WIDENING CIRCLE

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-337) and index.

ISBN:

9786612752025

9781400814985

1400814987

9781282752023

1282752022

9781400821433

1400821436

9781400810864

1400810868

OCLC:

700688397