| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) |
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| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-161) and index. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Secular Feminist Change and Its Limitations -- Ch. 2. The Transformation of Class and Communal Relations -- Ch. 3. The Islamic Mobilization of Women -- Ch. 4. The Confrontation of State, Mosque, and Church -- Ch. 5. The Personal Status Law Redefined -- Ch. 6. Women in the Islamic Polemic -- Ch. 7. Egyptian Feminism in the Balance. |
| Summary |
Egypt was the first country in the Middle East to experience the full impact of Westernization and the accompanying clash of ideologies, in the 1990s, few adhere to the notion that secular and Western-oriented regimes have advanced the case for women. This study is the first to examine the feminist issue in the context of Egypt's democratic crisis, faltering economy, and deteriorating sectarian relations. Using Arabic sources, Ghada Hashem Talhami pursues an authentic, indigenous analysis and produces a cultural study bridging politics, religion, anthropology, and sociology. Talhami examines the deliberate intensification of Islamic identity and its ramifications both for Muslim women and for Egypt's Coptic Christian minority. She pays careful attention to the Copts' mobilization of the '50s, '60s, and '70s and their clashes with Muslims, which led to Islamic redefinition of women's rights, and looks especially at the secular feminist reforms initiated by Jihan Sadat, the widow of Anwar Sadat. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Women -- Egypt.
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Muslim women -- Political activity -- Egypt.
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Feminism -- Egypt.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0813014298 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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9780813014296 hardcover |
| Standard No. |
heb40001 hdl |
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