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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton studies in culture/power/historyPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998. Description: ix, 300 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691057915 (cl : alk. paper)
  • 0691057923 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 9780691057927
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.420956 21  L.L.R
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Summary: 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.
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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.

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