The mobilization of Muslim women in Egypt / Ghada Hashem Talhami.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talhami, Ghada Hashem.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Egypt.

Women.

Muslim women--Egypt--Political activity.

Muslim women.

Feminism--Egypt.

Feminism.

Women--Political activity--Egypt.

Muslim women--Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 177 p. )

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Egypt was the first country in the Middle East to experience the full impact of Westernization and the accompanying clash of ideologies, in the 1990s, few adhere to the notion that secular and Western-oriented regimes have advanced the case for women. This study is the first to examine the feminist issue in the context of Egypt's democratic crisis, faltering economy, and deteriorating sectarian relations. Using Arabic sources, Ghada Hashem Talhami pursues an authentic, indigenous analysis and produces a cultural study bridging politics, religion, anthropology, and sociology. Talhami examines the deliberate intensification of Islamic identity and its ramifications both for Muslim women and for Egypt's Coptic Christian minority. She pays careful attention to the Copts' mobilization of the '50s, '60s, and '70s and their clashes with Muslims, which led to Islamic redefinition of women's rights, and looks especially at the secular feminist reforms initiated by Jihan Sadat, the widow of Anwar Sadat.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Secular Feminist Change and Its Limitations

Ch. 2. The Transformation of Class and Communal Relations

Ch. 3. The Islamic Mobilization of Women

Ch. 4. The Confrontation of State, Mosque, and Church

Ch. 5. The Personal Status Law Redefined

Ch. 6. Women in the Islamic Polemic

Ch. 7. Egyptian Feminism in the Balance.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-161) and index.

ISBN:

9780813020464

0813020468

Publisher Number:

heb40001 hdl