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Gender, Modernity and Liberty - Middle Eastern and Western Women's Writings - a Critical Sourcebook (Paperback)
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Gender, Modernity and Liberty - Middle Eastern and Western Women's Writings - a Critical Sourcebook (Paperback)
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"Gender, Modernity and Liberty" presents a dialogue between Western
and Middle Eastern women that is often presumed never to have
happened. Not only were women from the Middle East imagined to be
shut up in a harem all day without access to education, ideas or
the outside world, but the extent to which Western women travellers
were able to engage with women in the regions they visited has
often been overlooked. This pioneering collection provides
substantial extracts from Ottoman, Egyptian and British and
American writers - each with a biographical and literary
introduction - that trace the development of an intellectual,
personal and critical dialogue between women over a period of
accelerated social change marked by Arab nationalism and Egypt's
move to independence, and the establishment of the Turkish Republic
at the end of the Ottoman Empire. The ways in which the role of
woman as either guardian of tradition or in the vanguard of change
was hotly contested in both countries and by all sides of the
political spectrum is explained in an editors' introduction and
photo-essay that set up the common themes of the collection.
"Gender, Modernity and Liberty" includes writings by Halide Edib,
Musbah Haidar, Hoda Shaarawi, Emine Foat Tugay, Demetra Vaka Brown,
Zeyneb Hanoum, Lady Annie Brassey, Grace Ellison, Annie Harvey,
Emmeline Lott, Sophia Poole and Ruth Woodsmall. Participating in
local and international debates, they wrote about the harem,
polygyny, nationalism and modernism and commented on fashion
alongside discussions about feminism and slavery, knowing all the
while that their books were likely to be read through the
exoticising frame of Western Orientalist stereotype. Their success
in negotiating the very constraints that provided the - often
prurient - market for their books, reveals a will to
self-determination that speaks to the challenges still faced today
by women from the Middle East and the Muslim world.
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