History

Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt

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Price:
$53.00/£45.00
ISBN:
Published:
Apr 21, 1996
1994
Pages:
368
Size:
7.75 x 10 in.
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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 this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam.