Research Catalog

Title

Egypt as a woman : nationalism, gender, and politics / Beth Baron.

Author

Baron, Beth.

Publication

Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2005.

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Description

xv, 287 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This original and historically rich book examines the influence of gender in shaping the Egyptian nation from the nineteenth century through the revolution of 1919 and into the 1940s. In Egypt as a Woman, Beth Baron divides her narrative into two strands: the first analyzes the gendered language and images of the nation, and the second considers the political activities of women nationalists. She shows that, even though women were largely excluded from participation in the state, the visual imagery of nationalism was replete with female figures. Baron juxtaposes the idealization of the family and the feminine in nationalist rhetoric with transformations in elite households and the work of women activists striving for national independence. -- Publisher description.

Subject

• Women > Political activity > Egypt
• Women > Middle East
• Gender identity > Egypt
• Nationalism > Egypt
• Feminism > Egypt
• Egypt > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-276) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Images of the nation. Slavery, ethnicity, and family -- Constructing Egyptian honor -- Nationalist iconography -- Photography and the press -- The politics of women nationalists. The "ladies' demonstrations" -- Mother of the Egyptians -- Partisans of the Wafd -- An Islamist activist.

ISBN

9774249186

OCLC

62186188

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library