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Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist : A Woman Apart
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ISBN: 1417523255 1617975869 9774244133 Year: 1996 Publisher: London : I.B.Tauris,

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Cynthia Nelson brings to life a bold and gifted Egyptian of the mid-twentieth century who helped define what it means to be a modern Arab woman.Doria Shafik (1908-1975), an Egyptian feminist, poet, publisher, and political activist, participated in one of her country's most explosive periods of social and political transformation. During the '40s she burst onto the public stage in Egypt, openly challenging every social, cultural, and legal barrier that she viewed as oppressive to the full equality of women. As the founder of the Daughters of the Nile Union in 1948, she catalyzed a movement tha


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Revolutionary womanhood
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ISBN: 0804779066 9780804779067 9780804774390 0804774390 9780804774383 0804774382 Year: 2011 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950's and the gender politics of Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education, companionate marriage, and enlightened motherhood, as well as veiling, work, and other means of claiming public space created opportunities to reconsider the relationship between modernity, sta

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