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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.

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