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1 online resource (369 pages) |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS. |
| Summary |
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--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 th. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Egypt -- History.
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Feminism. |
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Egypt. |
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History. |
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Women -- Egypt -- History.
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Women. |
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Muslim women -- Egypt -- History.
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Muslim women. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Badran, Margot. Feminists, Islam, and Nation : Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001 9780691026053 |
| ISBN |
9781400821433 (electronic book) |
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1400821436 (electronic book) |
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1282752022 |
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9781282752023 |
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