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The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz - Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siecle Egypt (Hardcover)
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The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz - Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siecle Egypt (Hardcover)
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Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the
Shi'I community of Jabal 'Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognized
writer on women's and girls' aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt.
This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social
difference to the Arabic knowledge movement then, or Nahda. Fawwaz
published essays and engaged in debates in the Egyptian and
Ottoman-Arabic press, published two novels, and the first play
known to have been composed in Arabic by a female writer. This book
assesses her unusual life history and political
engagements-including her work late in life as an informant for the
Egyptian khedive. A series of thematically focused chapters takes
up her views on social justice, marriage, divorce and polygyny, the
'gender-nature' debate in the context of local understandings of
Darwinism, education, and imperialism and Islamophobia, attending
also to works by those to whom Fawwaz was responding. Her role in
the first Arabic women's magazine, and her contributions to later
women's magazines, are part of the story, too. Further chapters
consider her uses of history in fiction to criticize patriarchal
control of young women's lives, and her play as an intervention
into reformist theatre, and the question of women's access to
public culture in 1890s Egypt. Questions of desirable masculinities
are central to all of these. Fawwaz was also known for her massive
biographical dictionary of world women. In that work as in her
essays, Fawwaz articulated an ethics of social belonging and
sociality predicated on Islamic precepts of gender justice, and
critical of the ways male intellectuals had used 'tradition' to
silence women and deny their aspirations.
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