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Title:Egyptian discourses on gender and political liberalization: do secularist and Islamist views really differ?
Author:Hatem, Mervat F.
Year:1994
Periodical:Middle East Journal
Volume:48
Issue:4
Pages:661-676
Language:English
Geographic term:Egypt
Subjects:liberalism
Islam
women
External link:http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1290730819
Abstract:Few studies have examined the impact the post-1976 neoliberal system has had on Egyptian women. This paper examines secularist and Islamist views on gender and political liberalization in Egypt. It looks at feminist perspectives on liberalism and gender, women's rights under the regimes of Gamal Abdul Nasser (1952-1970), Anwar Sadat (1970-1981) and Husni Mubarak (1981 to date), and what several Islamist women (Zeinab al-Ghazali, president of the Muslim Women's Association, Safi Naz Kazim, a drama critic, and Iman Mohammed Mustafa, a reporter) have written about the roles and rights of women in contemporary society. The paper concludes that the convergence of the secularist and Islamist discourses highlights the centrality of domesticity as part of their definitions of femininity. The secular State accepted qualified political and legal rights of women but subordinated them to the State's larger social and economic concerns. The Islamists similarly accepted qualified rights of women in the public arena when the interests of the State and the family required it. The options offered by the secular State and the Islamists are similar, the differences between the two are not as radical as apologists of each side maintain. Notes, ref.
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