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Book SynopsisA study of the career and writings of Zaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) an early feminist thinker and writer in Egypt. It focuses on her newspaper essays, novels, poetry, and her play which was the first to be published by a female author in Arabic.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Feminism, Communities, and Zaynab Fawwaz Part I: Lives and Texts 1: Formations: A Birthplace, a Family, a Voyage 2: Egyptian Connections and the Nationalist Press Part II: Zaynab Fawwaz Efendi, 'Bearer of the Banner of Justice' 3: Social justice and activist subjects 4: Fawwaz in al-Fatat 5: Marriage and silences 6: 'This tyranny you have called Nature': Misogyny and/as science 7: Education: Not 'whether' but 'why' 8: Gender solidarity and patriotic disillusion: The politics of 1900 Part III: Politics of Romance: Fictions, Histories, and Feminine Voices 9: Good consequences, feminine choices: Public politics and the rights of the young (1895/1899) 10: Theatre and Morality, Passion and Fidelity (1893) 11: Cyrus the Great in 1905: Rewriting Herodotus in the feminine Part IV: Fin de siècle Later life Bibliography
