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

Other author Abu-Lughod, Lila.
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Descriptionix, 300 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPrinceton studies in culture/power/history
Princeton studies in culture/power/history. ^A251672
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97046125
ISBN0691057915 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN0691057923 (pb : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1726.5 .R45 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold