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Author Bier, Laura

Title Revolutionary womanhood : feminisms, modernity, and the state in Nasser's Egypt / Laura Bier
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 245 pages) : illustrations
Series Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
Contents Egyptian women in question : the historical roots of state feminism -- Between home and workplace : fashioning the "working woman" -- Law, secularism and intimacy : debating the personal status laws -- The family is a factory : regulating reproduction -- Our sisters in struggle : state feminism and Third World imaginaries
Summary "The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s and the gender politics of Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education, companionate marriage, and enlightened motherhood, as well as veiling, work, and other means of claiming public space created opportunities to reconsider the relationship between modernity, state feminism"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Government policy -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century
Feminism -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century
Feminism -- Egypt
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Feminism
Women -- Government policy
Egypt
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010051610
ISBN 9780804779067
0804779066
9780804774390
0804774390