Between 1892 and 1920 nearly thirty Arabic periodicals by, for, and
about women were produced in Egypt for circulation throughout the
Arab world. This flourishing women's press provided a forum for
debating such topics as the rights of woman, marriage and divorce,
and veiling and seclusion, and also offered a mechanism for
disseminating new ideologies and domestic instruction. In this
book, Beth Baron presents the first sustained study of this
remarkable material, exploring the connections between literary
culture and social transformation. Starting with profiles of the
female intellectuals who pioneered the women's press in Egypt-the
first generation of Arab women to write and publish
extensively-Baron traces the women's literary output from
production to consumption. She draws on new approaches in cultural
history to examine the making of periodicals and to reconstruct
their audience, and she suggests that it is impossible to assess
the influence of the Arabic press without comprehending the
circumstances under which it operated. Turning to specific issues
argued in the pages of the women's press, Baron finds that women's
views ranged across a wide spectrum. The debates are set in
historical context, with elaborations on the conditions of women's
education and work. Together with other sources, the journals show
significant changes in the activities of urban middle- and
upper-class Egyptian women in the decades before the 1919
revolution and underscore the sense that real improvement in
women's lives-the women's awakening-was at hand. Baron's discussion
of this extraordinary trove of materials highlights the voices of
the female intellectuals who championed this awakening and broadens
our understanding of the social and cultural history of the period.
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