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Revolutionary Womanhood - Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt (Hardcover)
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Revolutionary Womanhood - Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
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The first major historical account of gender politics during the
Nasser era, "Revolutionary Womanhood" analyzes feminism as a system
of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local
in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist
projects that emerged in the 1950s and the gender politics of
Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education,
companionate marriage, and enlightened motherhood, as well as
veiling, work, and other means of claiming public space created
opportunities to reconsider the relationship between modernity,
state feminism, and postcolonial state-building.
Bier highlights attempts by political elites under Nasser to
transform Egyptian women into national subjects. These attempts to
fashion a "new" yet authentically Egyptian woman both enabled and
constrained women's notions of gender, liberation, and agency.
Ultimately, Bier challenges the common assumption that these
emerging feminisms were somehow not culturally or religiously
authentic, and details their lasting impact on Egyptian womanhood
today.
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