Classes of ladies of cloistered spaces : writing feminist history through biography in fin de siècle Egypt /: writing feminist history through biography in fin de siècle Egypt. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marilyn Booth.
• Authors: Booth, Marilyn
• Contents: Pearls scattered : an introduction -- A women's world history, in the world of Arabic letters : a reader's view -- Founding mothers, speaking sisters : lineaments of community in history -- Writerly pursuits : a compiler's archive -- A beckoning compass, circulating lives : the Bustani Encyclopedia and other nineteenth-century sources -- Interlocutors? Men authoring women's history in the 1890s -- Framing a history of the present : or, did the pearls scatterer to the world's fair? -- Violent romances : the bodily drama of patriarchal trauma.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.420962; Feminism -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century; Feminism -- History; Muslim women; Religion -- Islam -- General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474403412; 9780748694860
• Related ISBNs: 9780748694877
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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