Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt
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...These focused especially on Indian and Egyptian women’s movements (Baron, 1994; Badran, 1995; Jayawardena, 1995; Southard, 1995), but also on countries and cultures having less self-evident (or less well known) relationships to European empires, such as Iran (Kandiyoti, 1991; Shahidian, 1995;…...
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...These focused especially on Indian and Egyptian women’s movements (Baron, 1994; Badran, 1995; Jayawardena, 1995; Southard, 1995), but also on countries and cultures having less self-evident (or...
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...…opening up Islam as a vital force in women’s and men’s daily lives, secular nationalism, articulated in the wake of colonial occupation, involved collective self-review as part of a project of national reinvigoration to win independence (Badran 1995; Baron 1994; Radwan 1998; Lazreg 1994)....
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...International feminists were confronted with issues of imperialism that they may have preferred to ignore (Badran 1995: 13)....
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...Egypt, for example, has historically appropriated and absorbed “alien elements” into a highly vital indigenous culture’ (Badran 1995: 31–2)....
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...“Authentic” dress and veiling did not constitute worrying issues at this time, and were not adopted by nationalist women as pressing strategies (Ahmed 1992; Badran 1995; Fleischmann 1999)....
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