TY - BOOK ID - 86026348 TI - Tunisia's modern woman : nation-building and state feminism in the global 1960s PY - 2021 SN - 1108961266 1009040367 1108845045 1009040227 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Feminism KW - Women KW - Women's rights KW - Economic conditions KW - Social conditions KW - Rights of women KW - Human rights KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Emancipation of women KW - Feminist movement KW - Women's lib KW - Women's liberation KW - Women's liberation movement KW - Women's movement KW - Social movements KW - Anti-feminism KW - Civil rights KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Emancipation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86026348 AB - Claims over women's liberation vocalized by Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba began with legal reforms related to family law in 1956. In this book, Amy Aisen Kallander uses this political appropriation of women's rights to look at the importance of women to post-colonial state-building projects in Tunisia and how this relates to other state-feminist projects across the Middle East and during the Cold War. Here we see how the notion of modern womanhood was central to a range of issues from economic development (via family planning) to intellectual life and the growth of Tunisian academia. Looking at political discourse, the women's press, fashion, and ideas about love, the book traces how this concept was reformulated by women through transnational feminist organizing and in the press in ways that proposed alternatives to the dominant constructions of state feminism. ER -