TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
TI  - Remaking women: feminism and modernity in the Middle East 
SN  - 0691057915 (cl : alk. paper)
U1  - 305.420956 21
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women in Islam
KW  - Feminism
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/97046125.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin021/97046125.html
UR  - http://repository.fue.edu.eg/xmlui/handle/123456789/3360
ER  -