ISBN:
0300055633
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 259 S.
DDC:
059/.927/082
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Femmes - Égypte - Conditions sociales
;
Femmes - Égypte - Vie intellectuelle
;
Presse - Égypte - Histoire
;
Presse féminine arabe - Égypte - Histoire
;
Presse féminine égyptienne - 1870-1914
;
Vrouwenbladen
;
Vrouwenemancipatie
;
Frau
;
Geschichte
;
Women Intellectual life
;
Women Social conditions
;
Women's periodicals, Arabic History 19th century
;
Women's periodicals, Arabic History 20th century
;
Frau
;
Frauenzeitschrift
;
Weibliche Intellektuelle
;
Soziale Situation
;
Arabisch
;
Égypte - Vie intellectuelle - 19e siècle
;
Égypte - Vie intellectuelle - 20e siècle
;
Egypt Intellectual life 19th century
;
Egypt Intellectual life 20th century
;
Ägypten
;
Ägypten
;
Frau
;
Soziale Situation
;
Ägypten
;
Weibliche Intellektuelle
;
Ägypten
;
Frauenzeitschrift
;
Arabisch
Abstract:
Between 1892 and 1920 nearly thirty Arabic periodicals by, for, and about women were produced in Egypt for circulation throughout the Arab world. This flourishing women's press provided a forum for debating such topics as the rights of woman, marriage and divorce, and veiling and seclusion, and also offered a mechanism for disseminating new ideologies and domestic instruction. In this book, Beth Baron presents the first sustained study of this remarkable material, exploring the connections between literary culture and social transformation. Starting with profiles of the female intellectuals who pioneered the women's press in Egypt - the first generation of Arab women to write and publish extensively - Baron traces the women's literary output from production to consumption. She draws on new approaches in cultural history to examine the making of periodicals and to reconstruct their audience, and she suggests that it is impossible to assess the influence of the Arabic press without comprehending the circumstances under which it operated. Turning to specific issues argued in the pages of the women's press, Baron finds that women's views ranged across a wide spectrum. The debates are set in historical context, with elaborations on the conditions of women's education and work. Together with other sources the journals show significant changes in the activities of urban middle- and upper-class Egyptian women in the decades before the 1919 revolution and underscore the sense that real improvement in women's lives - the women's awakening - was at hand. Baron's discussion of this extraordinary trove of materials highlights the voices of the female intellectuals who championed this awakening and broadens our understanding of the social and cultural history of the period.
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