May her likes be multiplied
Subtitle: biography and gender politics in Egypt
By: Marilyn Booth.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: Women -- Biography -- History and criticism; Biography as a literary form; Women in politics -- Egypt -- History; Feminism -- Egypt -- History
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-441) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Technical Note Prologue SCATTERED PEARLS AND MISTRESSES OF SECLUSION:; title: ZAYNAB FAWWAZ, ARABIC BIOGRAPHICAL WRITING,; title: AND A CANON OF FEMALE VISIBILITY SITING BIOGRAPHYT A POLITICS OF ADDRESS EXEMPLAR AND EXCEPTION:; title: BIOGRAPHY IN THE JOURNAL FOR WOMEN MAY OUR DAUGHTERS LISTEN: READERS, WRITERS, TEACHERS CATHERINE THE GREAT'S EMBROIDERY AND MARIA MITCHELL'S; title: STEWPOT: DISCURSIVE DOMESTICITIES JEANNE DARC, EGYPTIAN NATIONALIST:; title: COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND DIFFERENCE FROM SOBER TO SALACIOUS:; title: WOMEN'S BIOGRAPHY AS SPECTACLE FAMOUS WOMBS AND WOMEN S MEMORIES:; title: GENDER, NATION, AND LIFE WRITING IN TODAY'S EGYPT Notes Selected Bibliography Index.