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Contrary To Popular Perceptions, Newly Veiled Women Across The Middle East Are Just As Much Products And Symbols Of Modernity As The Upper- And Middle-class Women Who Courageously Took Off The Veil Almost A Century Ago. To Make This Point, These Essays Focus On The 'woman Question' In The Middle East (most Particularly In Egypt And Iran), Especially At The Turn Of The Century, When Gender Became A Highly Charged Nationalist Issue Tied Up In Complex Ways With The West. The Last Two Decades Have Witnessed An Extraordinary Burst Of Energy And Richness In Middle East Women's Studies, And The Contributors To This Volume Exemplify The Vitality Of This New Thinking. They Take Up Issues Of Concern To Historians And Social Thinkers Working On The Postcolonial World. The Essays Challenge The Assumptions Of Other Major Works On Women And Feminism In The Middle East By Questioning, Among Other Things, The Familiar Dichotomy In Which Women's Domesticity Is Associated With Tradition And Modernity With Their Entry Into The Public Sphere. Indeed, Remaking Women Is A Radical Challenge To Any Easy Equation Of Modernity With Progress, Emancipation, And The Empowerment Of Women. The Contributors Are L

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Author

Lila Abu-Lughod

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691057927

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Gender Studies, Fiction

Rating

4.05 / 5 (69 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14