Gender & Knowledge Alif No. 19

by Ghazoul, Ferial

• ISBN13: 9789774245213
• ISBN10: 9774245210
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press

Summary

Contributors are from Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, USA, India, Britain, and France. English Section: Saad Al Bazei, Doris Shoukri, Aisha Abdel Rahman (Bint al-Shati'), Melissa Matthes, Huda Lutfi, Srilata Ravi, Brinda Mehta, Maijan Al-Ruwaili, David Blanks, Jehan Al-Bayoumi, Nasr Abu Zeid Arabic Section: Hoda Elsadda, Sherine Abu el Naga, Sherif Hetata, Buthaina Al Nasiri, Salma Jayyusi, Nasr Abu Zeid, Muhammad Mahmoud, Virginia Woolf, Olfat Al Roubi, Heba Ra'ouf Ezzat, Muhammad Brairi, Julia Kristeva

Table of Contents

English Section
Editorial	6	(2)
Degendering Knowledge/Bridging the Sexual Difference?	8	(35)
Maijan H. Al-Ruwaili
Gendering History: Europe and the Middle East	43	(25)
David R. Blanks
Shahrazad's Sisters: Storytelling and Politics in the Memoirs of Mernissi, El Saadawi and Ashrawi	68	(29)
Melissa Matthes
The Wife of Bath's Parody of Scholasticism	97	(16)
Doris Enright-Clark Shoukri
Lyrical Interpretations of a Mythic Rape	113	(18)
Saad A. Al-Bazei
Marketing Devi: Indian Women in French Imagination	131	(20)
Srilata Ravi
Indo-Trinidadian Fiction: Female Identity and Creative Cooking	151	(34)
Brinda J. Mehta
Women and Health Here and There: A Medical Testimony	185	(9)
Jehan El-Bayoumi
Islam and the New Women	194	(9)
Bint Al-Shati
Anthony Calderbank
The Sectarian and the Renaissance Discourse	203	(20)
Nasr Hamid Abu-Zeid
Mona Mikhail
Women, History, Memory	223	(22)
Huda Lutfi
Samia Mehrez
James Stone
Abstracts of Articles	245	(32)
Notes on Contributors	277