May her likes be multiplied: biography and gender politics in Egypt
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1. Verfasser: Booth, Marilyn 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2001
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-441) and index
Scattered pearls and mistresses of seclusion: Zaynab Fawwāz, Arabic biographical writing, and a canon of female visibility -- Siting biograpHy: a politics of address -- Exemplar and exception: biography in the journal for women -- May our daughters listen: readers, writers, teachers -- Catherine the Great's embroidery and Maria Mitchell's stewpot: discursive domesticities -- Jeanne D'Arc, Egyptian nationalist: community, identity, and difference -- From sober to salacious: women's biography as spectacle -- Famous wombs and women's memories: gender nation and the life writing in today's Egypt
This study explores the Arabic tradition of life-writing in Egypt. It examines biographical works by women and uses examples of "famous women" biographies - including Joan of Arc and Jane Austen - to demonstrate how these narratives prescribed complex role models for middle-class girls
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxxviii, 460 pages)
ISBN:0520224191
0520224205
0520900502
0520925211
0585389292
9780520224193
9780520224209
9780520900509
9780520925212
9780585389295

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