Feminists, Islam, and Nation

"Badran ... challenge[s] the notion that feminism is only a Western creation and that it is incompatible with Islam.... This new study will be respected for its high level of scholarship and its sophisticated analysis."

Auteur

Margot Badran

Texte du rabat

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.

Résumé
Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources - memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories - this title shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order.

Contenu

PrefaceNote on Transliteration and TranslationAbbreviationsIntroduction3Pt. 1Rising Feminist Consciousness29Ch. 1Two Lives in Changing Worlds31Ch. 2Claiming Public Space47Ch. 3Thinking Gender61Ch. 4Egypt for Which Egyptians?74Pt. 2The Feminist Movement89Ch. 5The House of the Woman91Ch. 6City Sisters, Country Sisters111Ch. 7Recasting the Family124Ch. 8Educating the Nation142Ch. 9Women Have Always Worked165Ch. 10Traffic in Women192Ch. 11Suffrage and Citizenship207Pt. 3The Widening Circle221Ch. 12Arab Feminism223Notes251Bibliography317Index339