Remaking women : feminism and modernity in the Middle East /

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...

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Tác giả khác: Abu-Lughod, Lila (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Loạt:Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=329759
Mục lục:
  • 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.