May her likes be multiplied :biography and gender politics in Egypt /
Booth, Marilyn.
May her likes be multiplied : biography and gender politics in Egypt /
Marilyn Booth.
- xxxviii, 460 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-441) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Technical Note Prologue SCATTERED PEARLS AND MISTRESSES OF SECLUSION: -- ZAYNAB FAWWAZ, ARABIC BIOGRAPHICAL WRITING, -- AND A CANON OF FEMALE VISIBILITY SITING BIOGRAPHYT A POLITICS OF ADDRESS EXEMPLAR AND EXCEPTION: -- BIOGRAPHY IN THE JOURNAL FOR WOMEN MAY OUR DAUGHTERS LISTEN: READERS, WRITERS, TEACHERS CATHERINE THE GREAT'S EMBROIDERY AND MARIA MITCHELL'S -- STEWPOT: DISCURSIVE DOMESTICITIES JEANNE DARC, EGYPTIAN NATIONALIST: -- COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND DIFFERENCE FROM SOBER TO SALACIOUS: -- WOMEN'S BIOGRAPHY AS SPECTACLE FAMOUS WOMBS AND WOMEN S MEMORIES: -- GENDER, NATION, AND LIFE WRITING IN TODAY'S EGYPT Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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Women--Biography--History and criticism. Biography as a literary form. Women--Political activity--History.--Egypt Feminism--History.--Egypt