Feminists, Islam and Nation

by Badran, Margot

• ISBN13: 9780691026053
• ISBN10: 069102605X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

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 this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam.

Table of Contents

Preface
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 3
Rising Feminist Consciousness	p. 29
Two Lives in Changing Worlds	p. 31
Claiming Public Space	p. 47
Thinking Gender	p. 61
Egypt for Which Egyptians?	p. 74
The Feminist Movement	p. 89
The House of the Woman	p. 91
City Sisters, Country Sisters	p. 111
Recasting the Family	p. 124
Educating the Nation	p. 142
Women Have Always Worked	p. 165
Traffic in Women	p. 192
Suffrage and Citizenship	p. 207
The Widening Circle	p. 221
Arab Feminism	p. 223
Notes	p. 251
Bibliography	p. 317
Index	p. 339
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