The career and communities of Zaynab Fawwaz : feminist thinking in fin-de-siècle Egypt / Marilyn Booth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Booth, Marilyn, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, Arab--Egypt--Biography.

Women authors, Arab.

Women--Egypt--Social conditions--19th century.

Women.

Fawwāz, Zaynab, 1859 or 1860-1914--Criticism and interpretation.

Fawwāz, Zaynab.

Egypt.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the Shi'I community of Jabal 'Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognised writer on women's and girls' aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt. This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social difference to the Arabic knowledge movement then, or Nahda. Fawwaz published essays and engaged in debates in the Egyptian and Ottoman-Arabic press, published two novels, and the first play known to have been composed in Arabic by a female writer. This book assesses her unusual life history and political engagements, including her work late in life as an informant for the Egyptian khedive.

Contents:

Cover

The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

Technical note

Introduction: Feminism, Communities, and Zaynab Fawwaz

Feminist Thinking

Community

Career

Part I: Life in Two Places

1: Formations: A Birthplace, a Family, a Voyage

Local Histories

Intellectual Capital in a Narrative of Margins

The Al-As'ad Household

An Elusive Life History

Different Paths, Different Stories

Looking Back

2: Egyptian Connections and the Nationalist Press

'The Well-travelled Eagle'

Nationalist Outlets

Alignments

The Sultan's Loyalist

Arenas for Reform, Rules of Engagement

Debating the Family, Debating the Ethics of Public Debate

Al-Nil, Gender, Audience

Part II: 'Bearer of the Banner of Justice'

3: Social Justice and Activist Subjects

Ethics of Responsibility

Working Men, Working Women

Interpersonal Relations and the Freedom of the Subject

4: Fawwaz in al-Fatat

The Advent of al-Fatat

Women's Initiatives

A Community of Writers

Celebrating Vocality and Feminine Community

Interlude: Between al-Fatat and al-Ustadh

The High Society of Sisterhood

Other Sightings

5: Marriage and Silences

Authority and Hierarchy in Muslim Marriages

Biography and (Other) Polemics

From Lives Portrayed to (Other) Arguments

Marriage in al-Mu'ayyad

Going It Alone

Publishing Women?

Bearing the Banner of Justice, Facing the Possessor of Merits

Tafdil and Modes of Equivalence

From Hadith to Lived Lives

Into the Twentieth Century

Matrimony in the Nation

6: This Tyranny You Have Called Nature' Misogyny and/as Science

'What Had Lain Dormant in My Heart': Women's Rights, Men's Anxieties, and Evidential Authority

Stemming a Tide, Worldwide

Echo-Critique.

Redefining 'Rights'

Cherchez les Hommes

The Backstory

Fawwaz in the Chorus

7: Education: Not 'Whether' but 'Why'

Politics of Education

Inside a Girls' School

Debating Education

Educating the Nation in the 1890s

Education in al-Nil

Education for Modernity?

The Nation's Women

Education for Girls: What Choices?

8: Gender Solidarity and Patriotic Disillusion: The Politics of 1900

Who Was Hanotaux?

An Inferno Expelled

'Civic' and 'Religious'

Censorship and Its Limitations

The Political Public

Women, Politics, and Consumer Activism

Local Provocations

Anticipating Hanotaux

Finale: Occupation(al) Hazards?

Part III: Politics of Romance: Fictions, Histories, and Feminine Voices

9: Good Consequences, Feminine Choices: Public Politics and the Rights of the Young(1895/1899)

A Publication History

Politicizing Romance

History, Biography, Fiction

Heroines

Historical Men, Fictional Heroes

Shakib/'Ali

Tamir/Tamir

'Aziz/Muhammad

Khalid/Khalil

Networks and Helpers

The Harim and Its Outsides

Heterosociality, Speech, and the Mobile Harem

Poetry

Reading

Spaces Writ Large: Geography, Perspective, Allegory

Epilogue: Ends of History?

10: Theatre and Morality, Passion and Fidelity (1893)

Passion and Fidelity, Patriarchs and Family

Staging Romance

Debating Passion, Assuming Fidelity

Theatre and Reform

The Theatre in al-Nil and al-Nil at the Theatre

Women and/in/at Theatre in Egypt

Women in the Audience?

On the Publication of Plays

Paratexts

In Conclusion

11: Cyrus the Great in 1905: Rewriting Herodotus in the Feminine

Source and Story

Marriage: Alliance or Love?

Herodotus in Arabic?

But Who Is the Hero?

Religion

Part IV: Fin De Siecle

12: Later Life

A New Departure

Informant for the Palace.

Supporting Mustafa Kamil

Bibliography

Archive

Periodicals

Works by Zaynab Fawwaz

Other Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-193855-6

0-19-266133-7

OCLC:

1283848758