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Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East

·1998·Princeton University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1515/9781400831203
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Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the "woman question" in the Middle East (most particularly in Egypt and Iran), especially at the turn of the century, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary burst of energy and richness in Middle East women's studies, and the contributors to this volume exemplify the vitality of this new thinking. They take up issues of concern to historians and social thinkers working on the postcolonial world. The essays challenge the assumptions of other major works on women and feminism in the Middle East by questioning, among other things, the familiar dichotomy in which women's domesticity is associated with tradition and modernity with their entry into the public sphere. Indeed, Remaking Women is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women. The contributors are Lila Abu-Lughod, Marilyn Booth, Deniz Kandiyoti, Khaled Fahmy, Mervat Hatem, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Omnia Shakry, and Zohreh T. Sullivan.The book is introduced by the editor with a piece called "Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions," which masterfully interfaces the critical studies of feminism and modernism with scholarship on South Asia and the Middle East.

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  • Imperialist feminisms, such as feminist global interventionism and histories of white women saving brown women from brown men, are feminisms.

    “Imperialist feminisms -think of feminist global interventionism, histories of”

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Princeton University Press eBooks
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
1998-12-31
DOI
10.1515/9781400831203
OpenAlex
W4242612339
Cited by
618
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6.75
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book
Language
en
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Islamic Studies and History
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
Keywords
veiling, women's question, modernity, gender and nationalism, feminism, postcolonialism, women's domesticity, women's public sphere, women's history, Egypt, Iran, Middle East, Western influence

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