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Revolutionary womanhood : feminisms, modernity, and the state in Nasser's Egypt / Laura Bier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bier, Laura.
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
- Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Government policy--Egypt--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Feminism--Egypt--History--20th century.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950's and the gender politics of Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education, companionate marriage, and enlightened motherhood, as well as veiling, work, and other means of claiming public space created opportunities to reconsider the relationship between modernity, sta
- Contents:
- Egyptian women in question : the historical roots of state feminism
- Between home and workplace : fashioning the "working woman"
- Law, secularism and intimacy : debating the personal status laws
- The family is a factory : regulating reproduction
- Our sisters in struggle : state feminism and Third World imaginaries.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804779067
- 0804779066
- OCLC:
- 749264455
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