Egypt As A Woman Nationalism Gender And Politics

Author : Beth Baron
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520940819

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Egypt as a Woman by Beth Baron Pdf

This original and historically rich book examines the influence of gender in shaping the Egyptian nation from the nineteenth century through the revolution of 1919 and into the 1940s. In Egypt as a Woman, Beth Baron divides her narrative into two strands: the first analyzes the gendered language and images of the nation, and the second considers the political activities of women nationalists. She shows that, even though women were largely excluded from participation in the state, the visual imagery of nationalism was replete with female figures. Baron juxtaposes the idealization of the family and the feminine in nationalist rhetoric with transformations in elite households and the work of women activists striving for national independence.

Author : Marilyn Booth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0520925211

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May Her Likes Be Multiplied by Marilyn Booth Pdf

Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals. By 1940, hundreds of such biographies had been published, featuring Arabs, Turks, Indians, Europeans, North Americans, and ancient Greeks and Persians. Booth uses over five hundred "famous women" biographies—which include subjects as diverse as Joan of Arc, Jane Austen, Aisha bt. Abi Bakr, Sarojini Naidu, and Lucy Stone—to demonstrate how these narratives prescribed complex role models for middle-class girls, in a context where nationalist programs and emerging feminisms made defining the ideal female citizen an urgent matter. Booth begins by asking how cultural traditions shaped women's biography, and to whom the Egyptian biographies were directed. The biographies were published at a time of great cultural awakening in Egypt, when social and political institutions were in upheaval. The stories suggested that Islam could be flexible on social practice and gender, holding out the possibility for women to make their own lives. Yet ultimately they indicate that women would find it extremely difficult to escape the nationalist ideal: the nuclear family with "woman" at its center. This conflict remains central to Egyptian politics today, and in her final chapter Booth examines Islamic biographies of women's lives that have been published in more recent years.

Author : Lisa Pollard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520937536

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Nurturing the Nation by Lisa Pollard Pdf

Focusing on gender and the family, this erudite and innovative history reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism and the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class and household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule. Lisa Pollard deftly argues that the Egyptian state's modernizing projects in the nineteenth century reinforced ideals of monogamy and bourgeois domesticity among Egypt's elite classes and connected those ideals with political and economic success. At the same time, the British used domestic and personal practices such as polygamy, the harem, and the veiling of women to claim that the ruling classes had become corrupt and therefore to legitimize an open-ended tenure for themselves in Egypt. To rid themselves of British rule, bourgeois Egyptian nationalists constructed a familial-political culture that trained new generations of nationalists and used them to demonstrate to the British that it was time for the occupation to end. That culture was put to use in the 1919 Egyptian revolution, in which the reformed, bourgeois family was exhibited as the standard for "modern" Egypt.

Author : Claudia Ruta
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9781612338088

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Gender Politics in Transition: Women's Political Rights after the January 25 Revolution by Claudia Ruta Pdf

Author : Nermin Allam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108421904

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Women and the Egyptian Revolution by Nermin Allam Pdf

An examination of women′s political participation and engagement during and after the 2011 uprising in Egypt.

Author : Shereen Abouelnaga
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781617977299

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Women in Revolutionary Egypt by Shereen Abouelnaga Pdf

The 25 January 2011 uprising and the unprecedented dissent and discord to which it gave rise shattered the notion of homogeneity that had characterized state representations of Egypt and Egyptians since 1952. It allowed for the eruption of identities along multiple lines, including class, ideology, culture, and religion, long suppressed by state control. Concomitantly a profusion of women's voices arose to further challenge the state-managed feminism that had sought to define and carefully circumscribe women's social and civic roles in Egypt. Women in Revolutionary Egypt takes the uprising as the point of departure for an exploration of how gender in post-Mubarak Egypt came to be rethought, reimagined, and contested. It examines key areas of tension between national and gender identities, including gender empowerment through art and literature, particularly graffiti and poetry, the disciplining of the body, and the politics of history and memory. Shereen Abouelnaga argues that this new cartography of women's struggle has to be read in a context that takes into consideration the micropolitics of everyday life as well as the larger processes that work to separate the personal from the political. She shows how a new generation of women is resisting, both discursively and visually, the notion of a fixed or 'authentic' notion of Egyptian womanhood in spite of prevailing social structures and in face of all gendered politics of imagined nation.

Author : Laura Bier
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804774390

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Revolutionary Womanhood by Laura Bier Pdf

The book explores state feminism through a close look at how the Nasser regime took up "the woman question" as part of the attempt to build a modern Egyptian nation-state.

Author : Margot Badran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1400814987

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Feminists, Islam, and Nation by Margot Badran Pdf

The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources - memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories - Feminists, Islam, and Nation tells this story. Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that "feminism is Western" and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half of this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam. Badran offers an innovative reinterpretation of modern Egyptian history by demonstrating the gendered nature of nationalist, Islamic, and imperialist discourses. The book shows how Egyptian women, attentive to the implications of gender, played vital roles, both as movement activists and everyday pioneers, in the construction of citizenship and the institutions of a modern state and civil society. Badran argues further that, of all the forces that shaped and reshaped modern Egypt, feminism constituted the most sustained critique - from within - of state and society. Feminists, Islam, and Nation not only expands our understanding of modern Egypt and our historical knowledge of feminist movements, but also contributes toward theorizing and further defining feminism.

Author : Claudia Ruta
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1096615762

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Gender Politics in Transition. Women's Political Rights in Egypt After the January 25 Revolution. by Claudia Ruta Pdf

The book sets out the development of gender politics before and after the revolution of January 25, with a particular focus on the period between January and August 2011 in order to analyse how women's rights have been progressing during the transitional period. The book locates the Egyptian case in a broader analytical framework derived from a brief comparative analysis of women's activism in revolutionary struggles or independence movements in countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Iran, South Africa, and Chile. This enables the research to underscore and highlight which strategies adopted by women have enabled them to be recognized and included politically in the transitional and post-transitional periods of their countries. The book also reports the historical perspective of the feminist movement in Egypt, as well as the major events that happened during and after the Egyptian revolution regarding women's political participation, social activism and state politics. Finally, the book devotes considerable space to an empirical study of perceptions held by ordinary Egyptian men and women with regard to themes and issues related to women

Author : Cynthia Nelson
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9774244133

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Doria Shafik Egyptian Feminist : A Woman apart by Cynthia Nelson Pdf

Doria Shafik (1908-1975), catalyzed the suffrage movement as she set up programmes to combat illiteracy, provide economic opportunities for lower-class urban women, and raise the consciousness of middle-class students. This text tells her story.

Author : Huda Shaarawi
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781558619111

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Harem Years by Huda Shaarawi Pdf

A firsthand account of the private world of a harem in colonial Cairo—by a groundbreaking Egyptian feminist who helped liberate countless women. In this compelling memoir, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her marriage at age thirteen. Her subsequent separation from her husband gave her time for an extended formal education, as well as an unexpected taste of independence. Shaarawi’s feminist activism grew, along with her involvement in Egypt’s nationalist struggle, culminating in 1923 when she publicly removed her veil in a Cairo railroad station, a daring act of defiance. In this fascinating account of a true original feminist, readers are offered a glimpse into a world rarely seen by westerners, and insight into a woman who would not be kept as property or a second-class citizen.

Author : Arthur Goldschmidt
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555872298

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Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt by Arthur Goldschmidt Pdf

This desk reference provides biodata, biographical sketches, and source material for approximately 500 men and women who have played a major role in Egypt's national life.

Author : Hoda Elsadda
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748669189

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Gender, Nation, and the Arabic Novel by Hoda Elsadda Pdf

A nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the Egytian novel. Gender studies in Arabic literature have become equated with women's writing, leaving aside the possibility of a radical rethinking of the Arabic literary canon and Arab cultural history. While the 'woman question' in the Arabic novel has received considerable attention, the 'male question' has gone largely unnoticed. Now, Hoda Elsadda bucks that trend. Foregrounding voices that have been marginalised alongside canonical works, she engages with new directions in the novel tradition.

Author : Eve Troutt Powell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520233171

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A Different Shade of Colonialism by Eve Troutt Powell Pdf

Annotation A history of the three-way colonial relationship among Britain, Egypt, and the Sudan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unlike most books on colonialism, this one deals explicitly with race and slavery.

Author : Nadje Al-Ali
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521780225

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Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East by Nadje Al-Ali Pdf

Nadje Al-Ali's book explores the anthropological and political significance of secular-oriented activism by focusing on the women's movement in Egypt; in so doing, it challenges stereotypical images of Arab women as passive victims. The argument is constructed around interviews that afford insights into the history of the movement, its activities and its goals. The author frames her work around current theoretical debates in Middle Eastern and postcolonial scholarship.