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Title Remaking women : feminism and modernity in the Middle East / edited by Lila Abu-Lughod
Published Princeton, N.J. ; Chichester : Princeton University Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description ix, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Series Princeton studies in culture/power/history
Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
Contents Introduction: Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Pt. 1. Rewriting Feminist Beginnings: The Nineteenth Century. Ch. 1. Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Khaled Fahmy. Ch. 2. 'A'isha Taymur's Tears and the Critique of the Modernist and the Feminist Discourses on Nineteenth-Century Egypt / Mervat Hatem -- Pt. 2. Mothers, Wives, and Citizens: The Turn of the Century. Ch. 3. Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi. Ch. 4. Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt / Omnia Shakry. Ch. 5. The Egyptian Lives of Jeanne d'Arc / Marilyn Booth -- Pt. 3. Islamism, Modernism, and Feminisms: The Late Twentieth Century. Ch. 6. Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern? Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran / Zohreh T. Sullivan. Ch. 7. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Feminism -- Middle East.
Women in Islam -- Middle East.
Women -- Middle East -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Middle East -- Social conditions.
Author Abu-Lughod, Lila.
LC no. 97046125
ISBN 0691057915 (cased)
0691057923 (paperback)