The career and communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: feminist thinking in fin-de-siècle Egypt

Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the Shi'I community of Jabal 'Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognised writer on women's and girls' aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt. This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social difference...

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1. Verfasser: Booth, Marilyn 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York, NY Oxford University Press 2021
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the Shi'I community of Jabal 'Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognised writer on women's and girls' aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt. This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social difference to the Arabic knowledge movement then, or Nahda. Fawwaz published essays and engaged in debates in the Egyptian and Ottoman-Arabic press, published two novels, and the first play known to have been composed in Arabic by a female writer. This book assesses her unusual life history and political engagements, including her work late in life as an informant for the Egyptian khedive
Beschreibung:vii, 601 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9780192846198

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