| Description |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 460 pages) |
| Contents |
Scattered pearls and mistresses of seclusion: Zaynab Fawwāz, Arabic biographical writing, and a canon of female visibility -- Siting biograpHy: a politics of address -- Exemplar and exception: biography in the journal for women -- May our daughters listen: readers, writers, teachers -- Catherine the Great's embroidery and Maria Mitchell's stewpot: discursive domesticities -- Jeanne D'Arc, Egyptian nationalist: community, identity, and difference -- From sober to salacious: women's biography as spectacle -- Famous wombs and women's memories: gender nation and the life writing in today's Egypt |
| Summary |
This study explores the Arabic tradition of life-writing in Egypt. It examines biographical works by women and uses examples of "famous women" biographies - including Joan of Arc and Jane Austen - to demonstrate how these narratives prescribed complex role models for middle-class girls |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-441) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2017 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Women -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Biography as a literary form.
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Women -- Political activity -- Egypt -- History
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Feminism -- Egypt -- History
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Women -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Biography.
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biographies (literary works)
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biography (general genre)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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Biography as a literary form
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Feminism
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Women -- Biography
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Women -- Political activity
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Biografische Literatur
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Frauenliteratur
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Geschichte 1879-1967.
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Egypt
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Ägypten
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520925212 |
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0520925211 |
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0585389292 |
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9780585389295 |
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0520900502 |
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9780520900509 |
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9780520224193 |
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0520224191 |
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9780520224209 |
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0520224205 |
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1597347388 |
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9781597347389 |
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