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Title: | Feminists, Islam, and nation: gender and the making of modern Egypt |
Author: | Badran, Margot |
Year: | 1995 |
Pages: | 352 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Princeton, NJ |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
ISBN: | 069103706X |
Geographic term: | Egypt |
Subjects: | Islam women's organizations feminism |
Abstract: | This book describes the emergence of Egyptian feminism and its evolution from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. It draws on a wide range of women's sources: memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories. The book is arranged in three parts. Part 1, dealing with the period from the 1880s to the beginning of the 1920s, focuses on the continuing emergence of women's gender awareness in Egypt. Huda Sharawi and Nabawiyah Musa, whose vision and experiences form a vertical thread through the book, are first introduced in this part. Part 2 focuses on the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. It deals with the entire period of the first organized feminist movement, the movement that Sharawi led as founder and head of the Egyptian Feminist Union (EFU) from 1923 to her death in 1947. Part 3 concentrates on the period from the late 1930s through the 1940s when the EFU played a key role in bringing Egyptian and other Arab women together to defend the Palestinian national cause. |