Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History Through Biography in Fin-De-Siecle Egypt

ISBN-13: 9780748694860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 472 str.

Marilyn Booth

Opis

Zaynab Fawwaz (c. 1860-1914) was a forceful voice in support of women's rights to education and work choices in colonial-era Egypt. Her volume of 453 women's lives, al-Durr al-manthur fi tabaqat rabbat al-khudur (Pearls scattered in times and places: classes of ladies of cloistered spaces), was published between 1893 and 1896 and features Boudicca, Catherine the Great and Victoria Woodhull, among many others. Booth presents Fawwaz's dictionary as a 'feminist history' and a key text in the debates on gender and national efficacy in 1890s Egypt and Ottoman Syria.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; 1. Pearls Scattered: An introduction; 2. A women’s world history, in the world of Arabic letters: A reader’s view; 3. Founding mothers, speaking sisters: Lineaments of community in history; 4. Writerly pursuits: A compiler’s archive; 5. A beckoning Compass and circulating lives: The Bustani encyclopedia and other nineteenth-century sources; 6. Interlocutors? Men authoring women’s history in the 1890s ; 7. Framing a history of the present: or, Did the Pearls scatter to the World’s Fair?; 8. Violent romances: The bodily drama of patriarchal trauma Conclusion: A world of women, feminist history and the importance of the feminine signature; Appendix I: Fawwaz’s Biographical Subjects: A List; Appendix II: Translations; Notes; Bibliography