Badran Feminists, Islam, and Nation

Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2143-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Margot Badran is Professor of Women's Studies and History at Oberlin College. A specialist in the Middle East, she translated, edited, and introduced Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, Huda Shaarawi and is coeditor of Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Badran, Margot

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Abbreviations

Introduction 3

Pt. 1 Rising Feminist Consciousness 29

Ch. 1 Two Lives in Changing Worlds 31

Ch. 2 Claiming Public Space 47

Ch. 3 Thinking Gender 61

Ch. 4 Egypt for Which Egyptians? 74

Pt. 2 The Feminist Movement 89

Ch. 5 The House of the Woman 91

Ch. 6 City Sisters, Country Sisters 111

Ch. 7 Recasting the Family 124

Ch. 8 Educating the Nation 142

Ch. 9 Women Have Always Worked 165

Ch. 10 Traffic in Women 192

Ch. 11 Suffrage and Citizenship 207

Pt. 3 The Widening Circle 221

Ch. 12 Arab Feminism 223

Notes 251

Bibliography 317

Index 339

Über Autor(innen)

Margot Badran is Professor of Women's Studies and History at Oberlin College. A specialist in the Middle East, she translated, edited, and introduced Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, Huda Shaarawi and is coeditor of Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing.