ISBN:
9781400821433
,
1400821436
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (369 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Badran, Margot Feminists, Islam, and Nation : Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt
DDC:
305.420962
Keywords:
Feminism History
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Egypt
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Women History
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Egypt
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Muslim women History
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Egypt
;
Feminism History
;
Women History
;
Muslim women History
;
Social Science Egypt
;
Feminism History
;
Egypt
;
Muslim women History
;
Egypt
;
Women History
;
Egypt
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
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Feminism
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Muslim women
;
Women
;
History
;
Egypt
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that "feminism is Western" and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half of th
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