| Description |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 460 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-441) and index. |
| Contents |
Scattered pearls and mistresses of seclusion: Zaynab Fawwāz, Arabic biographical writing, and a canon of female visibility -- Siting biograpHy: a politics of address -- Exemplar and exception: biography in the journal for women -- May our daughters listen: readers, writers, teachers -- Catherine the Great's embroidery and Maria Mitchell's stewpot: discursive domesticities -- Jeanne D'Arc, Egyptian nationalist: community, identity, and difference -- From sober to salacious: women's biography as spectacle -- Famous wombs and women's memories: gender nation and the life writing in today's Egypt. |
| Summary |
This study explores the Arabic tradition of life-writing in Egypt. It examines biographical works by women and uses examples of "famous women" biographies - including Joan of Arc and Jane Austen - to demonstrate how these narratives prescribed complex role models for middle-class girls. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Women -- Biography. |
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Biography as a literary form.
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Biography as a literary form. |
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Women -- Political activity -- Egypt -- History.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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Egypt. |
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History. |
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Feminism -- Egypt -- History.
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Feminism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Booth, Marilyn. May her likes be multiplied. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520224191 (DLC) 00069956 (OCoLC)45804602 |
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Online version: Booth, Marilyn. May her likes be multiplied. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 (OCoLC)809553553 |
| ISBN |
9780520925212 (electronic book) |
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0520925211 (electronic book) |
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0585389292 (electronic book) |
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9780585389295 (electronic book) |
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0520900502 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780520900509 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780520224193 (alkaline paper) |
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0520224191 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520224209 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0520224205 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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