Remaking Women : : Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East / / ed. by Lila Abu-Lughod.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Abu-Lughod, Lila,; Booth, Marilyn,; Fahmy, Khaled,; Hatem, Mervat,; Kandiyoti, Deniz,; Najmabadi, Afsaneh,; Shakry, Omnia,; Sullivan, Zohreh T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Abu-Lughod, Lila,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Note on Transliterations --; Introduction. Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions --; Part One. REWRITING FEMINIST BEGINNINGS: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY --; Chapter 1. Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt --; Chapter 2. A'isha Taymur's Tears and the Critique of the Modernist and the Feminist Discourses on Nineteenth-Century Egypt --; Part Two. MOTHERS, WIVES, AND CITIZENS: THE TURN OF THE CENTURY --; Chapter 3. Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran --; Chapter 4. Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egyp --; Chapter 5. The Egyptian Lives of Jeanne d'Arc --; Part Three. ISLAMISM, MODERNISM, AND FEMINISMS: THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY --; Chapter 6. Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern? Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran --; Chapter 7. The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics --; Afterword. Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400831203; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400831203
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Lila Abu-Lughod.

Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the "woman question" in the Middle East (most particularly in Egypt and Iran), especially at the turn of the century, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary burst of energy and richness in Middle East women's studies, and the contributors to this volume exemplify the vitality of this new thinking. They take up issues of concern to historians and social thinkers working on the postcolonial world. The essays challenge the assumptions of other major works on women and feminism in the Middle East by questioning, among other things, the familiar dichotomy in which women's domesticity is associated with tradition and modernity with their entry into the public sphere. Indeed, Remaking Women is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women. The contributors are Lila Abu-Lughod, Marilyn Booth, Deniz Kandiyoti, Khaled Fahmy, Mervat Hatem, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Omnia Shakry, and Zohreh T. Sullivan.The book is introduced by the editor with a piece called "Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions," which masterfully interfaces the critical studies of feminism and modernism with scholarship on South Asia and the Middle East.