| Description |
ix, 300 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Princeton studies in culture/power/history |
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Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Women -- Middle East -- Social conditions.
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Women in Islam -- Middle East.
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Feminism -- Middle East.
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| Added Author |
Abu-Lughod, Lila.
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| ISBN |
0691057915 cloth alkaline paper |
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0691057923 pb alkaline paper |
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