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Book SynopsisDrawing upon a wide range of women's sources - memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories - this title shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order.
Trade Review"Most accounts of modern Egyptian history focus on and are written by men. This one is different--and welcome. It traces the development of Egyptian nationalist sentiment by concentrating on the emergence of Egyptian feminism, [from] the rise of 'feminist consciousness' [to] the creation of explicitly political feminist organizations."--Foreign Affairs "Badran ... challenge[s] the notion that feminism is only a Western creation and that it is incompatible with Islam... This new study will be respected for its high level of scholarship and its sophisticated analysis."--Choice
Table of ContentsPrefaceNote on Transliteration and TranslationAbbreviationsIntroduction3Pt. 1Rising Feminist Consciousness29Ch. 1Two Lives in Changing Worlds31Ch. 2Claiming Public Space47Ch. 3Thinking Gender61Ch. 4Egypt for Which Egyptians?74Pt. 2The Feminist Movement89Ch. 5The House of the Woman91Ch. 6City Sisters, Country Sisters111Ch. 7Recasting the Family124Ch. 8Educating the Nation142Ch. 9Women Have Always Worked165Ch. 10Traffic in Women192Ch. 11Suffrage and Citizenship207Pt. 3The Widening Circle221Ch. 12Arab Feminism223Notes251Bibliography317Index339
