TY  - GEN
T1  - Remaking women : feminism and modernity in the Middle East
T2  - Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
A2  - Abu-Lughod, Lila
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1998
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn650307426
AB  - Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the 'woman question' in the Middle East (most particularly in Egypt and Iran), especially at the turn of the century, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary burst of energy and richness in Middle East women's studies, and the contributors to this volume exemplify the vitality of this new thinking. They take up issues of concern to historians and social thinkers working on the postcolonial world. The essays challenge the assumptions of other major works on women and feminism in the Middle East by questioning, among other things, the familiar dichotomy in which women's domesticity is associated with tradition and modernity with their entry into the public sphere. Indeed, Remaking Women is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women. The contributors are Lila Abu-Lughod, Marilyn Booth, Deniz Kandiyoti, Khaled Fahmy, Mervat Hatem, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Omnia Shakry, and Zohreh T. Sullivan. The book is introduced by the editor with a piece called 'Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions, ' which masterfully interfaces the critical studies of feminism and modernism with scholarship on South Asia and the Middle East.
OP  - 300
CN  - HQ1726.5 .R45 1998eb
SN  - 9781400831203
SN  - 1400831202
SN  - 1282303899
SN  - 9781282303898
SN  - 9786612303890
SN  - 6612303891
SN  - 9780691057927
SN  - 0691057923
SN  - 0691057915
KW  - Women : Middle East : Social conditions.
KW  - Women in Islam : Middle East.
KW  - Feminism : Middle East.
KW  - Femmes : Moyen-Orient : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Femmes dans l'islam : Moyen-Orient.
KW  - Féminisme : Moyen-Orient.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Feminism & Feminist Theory.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Women's Studies.
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Women in Islam
KW  - Women : Social conditions
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Feminismus
KW  - Naher Osten
KW  - Frau
KW  - Vrouwen.
KW  - Feminisme.
KW  - Islam.
ER  -