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Remaking women : feminism and modernity in the Middle East / edited by Lila Abu-Lughod.

Contributor(s): Abu-Lughod, Lila
Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton studies in culture/power/history: Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: ix, 300 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0691057923 (pb : alk. paper); 0691057915 (cl : alk. paper)Subject(s): Women -- Middle East -- Social conditions | Women in Islam -- Middle East | Feminism -- Middle EastDDC classification: 305.42/0956 LOC classification: HQ1726.5 | .R45 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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