Remaking women : feminism and modernity in the Middle East / edited by Lila Abu-Lughod.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abu-Lughod, Lila.

Series:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history.

Princeton studies in culture/power/history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Middle East--Social conditions.

Women.

Women in Islam--Middle East.

Women in Islam.

Feminism--Middle East.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the "woman question" in the Middle East (most particularly in Egypt and Iran), especially at the turn of the century, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary burst of energy and richness in Middle East women's studies, and the contributors to this volume exemplify the vitality of this new thinking. They take up issues of concern to historians and social thinkers working on the postcolonial world. The essays challenge the assumptions of other major works on women and feminism in the Middle East by questioning, among other things, the familiar dichotomy in which women's domesticity is associated with tradition and modernity with their entry into the public sphere. Indeed, Remaking Women is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women. The contributors are Lila Abu-Lughod, Marilyn Booth, Deniz Kandiyoti, Khaled Fahmy, Mervat Hatem, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Omnia Shakry, and Zohreh T. Sullivan.The book is introduced by the editor with a piece called "Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions," which masterfully interfaces the critical studies of feminism and modernism with scholarship on South Asia and the Middle East.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Note on Transliterations

Introduction. Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions / Abu-Lughod, Lila

Part One. REWRITING FEMINIST BEGINNINGS: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Chapter 1. Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Fahmy, Khaled

Chapter 2. A'isha Taymur's Tears and the Critique of the Modernist and the Feminist Discourses on Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Hatem, Mervat

Part Two. MOTHERS, WIVES, AND CITIZENS: THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

Chapter 3. Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran / Najmabadi, Afsaneh

Chapter 4. Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egyp / Shakry, Omnia

Chapter 5. The Egyptian Lives of Jeanne d'Arc / Booth, Marilyn

Part Three. ISLAMISM, MODERNISM, AND FEMINISMS: THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Chapter 6. Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern? Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran / Sullivan, Zohreh T.

Chapter 7. The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics / Abu-Lughod, Lila

Afterword. Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey / Kandiyoti, Deniz

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612303890

9781282303898

1282303899

9781400831203

1400831202

OCLC:

609852833