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Gender, modernity and liberty : Middle Eastern and Western women's writings: a critical sourcebook
Verfasst von:
Micklewright, Nancy
London [u. a.]:
Tauris
,
2006
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259 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Micklewright, Nancy |
| Herausgegeben von: | Lewis, Reina |
| Jahr: | 2006 |
| Maße: | 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1860649564 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This book presents a dialogue between Western and Middle Eastern women. It provides substantial extracts from Ottoman, Egyptian and British and American writers each with a biographical and literary introduction that trace the development of an intellectual, personal and critical dialogue between women over a period of accelerated social change marked by Arab nationalism and Egypts move to independence, and the establishment of the Turkish Republic at the end of the Ottoman Empire. The ways in which the role of woman as either guardian of tradition or in the vanguard of change was hotly contested in both countries and by all sides of the political spectrum is explained in an editors' introduction and photo-essay that set up the common themes of the collection. "Gender, Modernity and Liberty" includes writings by Halide Edib, Musbah Haidar, Hoda Shaarawi, Emine Foat Tugay, Demetra Vaka Brown, Zeyneb Hanoum, Lady Annie Brassey, Grace Ellison, Annie Harvey, Emmeline Lott, Sophia Poole and Ruth Woodsmall. Participating in local and international debates, they wrote about the harem, polygyny, nationalism and modernism and commented on fashion alongside discussions about feminism and slavery, knowing all the while that their books were likely to be read through the exoticising frame of Western Orientalist stereotype. Their success in negotiating the very constraints that provided the - often prurient - market for their books, reveals a will to self-determination that speaks to the challenges still faced today by women from the Middle East and the Muslim world. | |
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| Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP | |
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