Remaking women : feminism and modernity in the Middle East /
Remaking women : feminism and modernity in the Middle East /
edited by Lila Abu-Lughod.
- ix, 300 pages ; 24 cm.
- Princeton studies in culture/power/history .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions / Lila Abu-Lughod --
Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Khaled Fahmy --
'A'isha Taymur's Tears and the Critique of the Modernist and the Feminist Discourses on Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Mervat Hatem --
Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi --
Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt / Omnia Shakry --
The Egyptian Lives of Jeanne d'Arc / Marilyn Booth --
Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern? Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran / Zohreh T. Sullivan --
The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics / Lila Abu-Lughod --
Afterword: Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey / Deniz Kandiyoti.
Focuses on the 'woman question' in the Middle East, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. This book is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women.
0691057915 (cl : alk. paper) 0691057923 (pb : alk. paper) 9780691057927
Women--Social conditions.--Middle East
Women in Islam--Middle East.
Feminism--Middle East.
305.420956 / L.L.R
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions / Lila Abu-Lughod --
Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Khaled Fahmy --
'A'isha Taymur's Tears and the Critique of the Modernist and the Feminist Discourses on Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Mervat Hatem --
Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi --
Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt / Omnia Shakry --
The Egyptian Lives of Jeanne d'Arc / Marilyn Booth --
Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern? Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran / Zohreh T. Sullivan --
The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics / Lila Abu-Lughod --
Afterword: Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey / Deniz Kandiyoti.
Focuses on the 'woman question' in the Middle East, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. This book is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women.
0691057915 (cl : alk. paper) 0691057923 (pb : alk. paper) 9780691057927
Women--Social conditions.--Middle East
Women in Islam--Middle East.
Feminism--Middle East.
305.420956 / L.L.R