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Gender and Class in the Egyptian Women's Movement, 1925-1939: Changing Perspectives (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms)
Cathlyn Mariscotti
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Description for Gender and Class in the Egyptian Women's Movement, 1925-1939: Changing Perspectives (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms)
Hardcover. Offers a reexamination of the Egyptian women's movement in light of class differences. This book describes the way in which elite feminism created a concept of womanhood that fed into the nationalist cultural ideal, one that was not necessarily progressive for all Egyptian women. Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms. Num Pages: 184 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; JFSJ1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
The Egyptian women's movement has been heralded as improving the lives of women in Egypt and paving the way for women throughout the Arab world. As seen through the eyes of the university-educated elite and middle class, this is no doubt true, yet such a narrow view fails to account for the diversity of women's experience. Cathlyn Mariscotti provides a critical reexamination of the women's movement in light of class differences. Framing it within the broader economic and political movements occurring in Egypt and abroad, her nuanced account of the women's movement unveils a rich, differentiated, and complex history of ... Read more
The Egyptian women's movement has been heralded as improving the lives of women in Egypt and paving the way for women throughout the Arab world. As seen through the eyes of the university-educated elite and middle class, this is no doubt true, yet such a narrow view fails to account for the diversity of women's experience. Cathlyn Mariscotti provides a critical reexamination of the women's movement in light of class differences. Framing it within the broader economic and political movements occurring in Egypt and abroad, her nuanced account of the women's movement unveils a rich, differentiated, and complex history of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815631705
SKU
V9780815631705
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99-48
About Cathlyn Mariscotti
Cathlyn Mariscotti is an associate professor of history at Holy Family University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Reviews for Gender and Class in the Egyptian Women's Movement, 1925-1939: Changing Perspectives (Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms)
Original.... An important and timely intervention into the history of Egyptian feminism." - Samah Selim, author of The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1800-1985