Revolutionary womanhood
Subtitle: feminisms, modernity, and the state in Nasser's Egypt
By: Laura Bier
Series: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures; Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780804774383; 9780804774390
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Women; Government policy; Feminism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Egyptian women in question : the historical roots of state feminism; title: Between home and workplace : fashioning the "working woman"; title: Law, secularism and intimacy : debating the personal status laws; title: The family is a factory : regulating reproduction; title: Our sisters in struggle : state feminism and Third World imaginaries.