| Description |
1 online resource (345 pages) |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Thanksgiving""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chronology""; ""The Awakening (1908�1928)""; ""1. Between Two Poles""; ""The Turning Point (1928�1944)""; ""2. To Want and to Dare (1928�1932)""; ""3. In Search of Love (1932�1936)""; ""4. Return to the City of Light (1936�1939)""; ""5. A Stranger in Her Own Land (1939�1942)""; ""6. The Turning Point (1942�1944)""; ""The Struggle (1945�1954)""; ""7. Into the Limelight (1945�1947)""; ""8. Carrying the Banner (1948�1950)"" |
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""9. Storming the Parliament (1951)""""10. A False Dream (1952�1954)""; ""11. Divergent Paths (1954)""; ""Pursuing the Absolute (1954�1957)""; ""12. Flight around the World (1954�1955)""; ""13. The Beginning of the End (1955�1957)""; ""14. A Woman Alone (1957)""; ""Solitude (1957�1975)""; ""15. The Interior Life""; ""16. Life as a Work of Art""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography"" |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Egypt -- History
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Feminists -- Egypt -- Biography
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Shafiq, Durriyah
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Women in Islam -- Egypt -- History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781617975868 |
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1617975869 |
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