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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(4)
