Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East
Subtitle: The Egyptian Women's Movement (Cambridge Middle East Studies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521785044
Subjects: Anthropology; Feminism; Social Science; Sociology; Gender Studies; Middle East - General; Women's Studies - General; Feminism--Egypt; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General
First sentence: As I think about the question of how post-colonial scholarship has influenced more recent works about the 'East', and also ponder on the gains and pitfalls of post-orientalist scholarship, I come across Edward Said's reassuring words in his introduction to Culture and Imperialism (1993): 'Gone are the binary oppositions dear to the nationalist and imperialist enterprise' (p. xxxiii).