Creating the New Egyptian Woman
Subtitle: Consumerism, Education, and National Identity, 1863-1922
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403962621
Subjects: Women; Social conditions; History; Gender Studies; Women's Studies - General; History: World; Women consumers; Sociology; General; Middle East - Egypt; Social Science / Women's Studies; Education; Egypt
First sentence: In his work by the same title, Qasim Amin described the New Woman as "one of the fruits of modern civilization" and connected her rise in the West to "scientific discoveries that freed the human mind from the powers of delusion, suspicion, and superstition."