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May Her Likes Be Multiplied - Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (Paperback)
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May Her Likes Be Multiplied - Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (Paperback)
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Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic
tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though
biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth
century short sketches by and about women began to appear in
biographical dictionaries and women's journals. By 1940, hundreds
of such biographies had been published, featuring Arabs, Turks,
Indians, Europeans, North Americans, and ancient Greeks and
Persians. Booth uses over five hundred "famous women"
biographies--which include subjects as diverse as Joan of Arc, Jane
Austen, Aisha bt. Abi Bakr, Sarojini Naidu, and Lucy Stone--to
demonstrate how these narratives prescribed complex role models for
middle-class girls, in a context where nationalist programs and
emerging feminisms made defining the ideal female citizen an urgent
matter.
Booth begins by asking how cultural traditions shaped women's
biography, and to whom the Egyptian biographies were directed. The
biographies were published at a time of great cultural awakening in
Egypt, when social and political institutions were in upheaval. The
stories suggested that Islam could be flexible on social practice
and gender, holding out the possibility for women to make their own
lives. Yet ultimately they indicate that women would find it
extremely difficult to escape the nationalist ideal: the nuclear
family with "woman" at its center. This conflict remains central to
Egyptian politics today, and in her final chapter Booth examines
Islamic biographies of women's lives that have been published in
more recent years.
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