| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 601 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Feminism, Communities, and Zaynab Fawwaz -- Part I: Life in Two Places -- 1: Formations: A Birthplace, a Family, a Voyage -- 2: Egyptian Connections and the Nationalist Press -- Part II: 'Bearer of the Banner of Justice' -- 3: Social Justice and Activist Subjects -- 4: Fawwaz in al-Fatat -- 5: Marriage and Silences -- 6: This Tyranny You Have Called Nature' Misogyny and/as Science -- 7: Education: Not 'Whether' but 'Why' -- 8: Gender Solidarity and Patriotic Disillusion: The Politics of 1900 -- Part III: Politics of Romance: Fictions, Histories, and Feminine Voices -- 9: Good Consequences, Feminine Choices: Public Politics and the Rights of the Young(1895/1899) -- 10: Theatre and Morality, Passion and Fidelity (1893) -- 11: Cyrus the Great in 1905: Rewriting Herodotus in the Feminine -- Part IV: Fin De Siecle -- 12: Later Life -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
This edition also issued in print: 2021 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2021) |
| Subject |
Fawwāz, Zaynab, 1859 or 1860-1914 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Fawwāz, Zaynab, 1859 or 1860-1914 fast |
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Women -- Egypt -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Women authors, Arab -- Egypt -- Biography
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Feminism -- Arab countries -- History -- 19th century
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Feminism -- Arab countries -- History -- 20th century
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Feminism
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Women authors, Arab
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Women -- Social conditions
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Arab countries
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Egypt
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191938559 |
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0191938556 |
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9780192661326 |
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0192661329 |
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9780192661333 |
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0192661337 |
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