Abu-Lughod Remaking Women

Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3120-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Abu-Lughod, Lila

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Note on Transliterations xi

Introduction. Lila Abu-Lughod: Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions 3

PART ONE: REWRITING FEMINIST BEGINNINGS: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 33

Chapter 1. Khaled Fahmy: Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt 35

Chapter 2. Mervat Hatem: 'A'isha Taymur's Tears and the Critique of the Modernist and the Feminist Discourses on Nineteenth-Century Egypt 73

PART TWO: MOTHERS, WIVES, AND CITIZENS: THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 89

Chapter 3. Afsaneh Najmabadi: Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran 91

Chapter 4. Omnia Shakry: Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt 126

Chapter 5. Marilyn Booth: The Egyptian Lives of Jeanne d'Arc 171

PART THREE: ISLAMISM, MODERNISM, AND FEMINISMS: THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY 213

Chapter 6. Zohreh T Sullivan. Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modem? Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran 215

Chapter 7. Lila Abu-Lughod: The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial. Cultural Politics 243

Afterword. Deniz Kandiyoti: Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey 270

Contributors 289

Index 291

Über Autor(innen)

Lila Abu-Lughod is Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at New York University. She has written widely on women and gender in the Middle East. Her books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society and Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories.