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Author Zachs, Fruma

Title Gendering Culture in Greater Syria : Intellectuals and Ideology in the Late Ottoman Period
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
Series Library of Middle East History
Library of Middle East history.
Contents Front cover; Author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. From Difa' al-Nisa' to Mas'alat al-Nisa' in Greater Syria: Readers and Writers Debate Women and Their Rights, 1858-1900; 2. Love, Marriage and Social Reform in the Early Arabic Novel; 3. Repaving the Path of Muru'a: Manly Virtue and the Emergence of a Modern Masculinity in Greater Syria; 4. "Like a Planet without a Star": The Glocalization of Domestic Discourse
5. The "Missing Link"? The Nahda Novelists and Intellectuals from Social Commentary to Political Critique and Activism6. Beyond the Marriage Plot: Marriage, Sexuality and the Rise of "Outlaw Emotions" in Turn-of-the-century Novels; Epilogue: Did Women Have a Nahda?; Appendix 1: Illustrations from the Novel Asma; Appendix 2: Anonymous Letter on Women's Rights and Elections; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back cover
Summary "The Nahda (lit. 'the Awakening') was one of the most significant cultural movements in modern Arab history. By focusing on the neglected role of women in the intellectual Islamic renaissance of the late Ottoman Period, Fruma Zachs and Sharon Halevi provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exploration of gender and culture in the Arab World. Focusing mainly on Greater Syria, this book re-examines the cultural by-products of the Nahda - such as scientific debates, journal articles, essays, short stories and novels - and provides a new framework for rethinking the dynamics of cultural and social change in what today we know as Syria and Lebanon. The lasting impact of the Nahda is given an innovative and thoroughly unique interpretation, providing an indispensable perspective to studying the nuanced roles of the construction and development of gender ideologies in the nineteenth century Middle East. The authors explore contemporary ideas concerning modern gender roles in the Middle East, and the extent to which these emerged in nineteenth-century Greater Syria. How were these ideas incorporated into daily lives, consumer patterns and cultural activities? Was class a determining factor in the creation of gender relations in the Muslim world? How were the subjectivities of gender moulded and articulated in fictional and non-fictional texts? The authors delineate both the evolution of a discourse on gender as well the "real-life" activities of men and women as writers, readers and participants in philanthropic and cultural societies, literary salons and educational enterprises. This book reemphasizes the position of the Nahda in the worlds of Damascus, Aleppo and Beirut as an innovative, deeply influential, and significant socio-cultural and political movement in its own right, which played a major role in shaping modern Arab culture, worldviews and self-perception. Zachs and Halevi here provide a new framework for rethinking the dynamics of cultural and social change, and present a groundbreaking new interpretation of the cumulative impact of the Nahda on gender perception in the late Ottoman Period."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Syria -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Women -- Lebanon -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Colonialism & imperialism.
Intellectual life
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Syria -- History -- 19th century
Syria -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Lebanon -- History -- 19th century
Lebanon -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Subject Lebanon
Syria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Halevi, Sharon
ISBN 9780857725592
0857725599
9780857736727
0857736728