{"product_id":"remaking-women-feminism-and-modernity-in-the-middle-east-9780691057927","title":"Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003eContrary 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, \u003ci\u003eRemaking Women\u003c\/i\u003e is a radical challenge to any easy equation of modernity with progress, emancipation, and the empowerment of women. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The contributors are Lila Abu-Lughod, Marilyn Booth, Deniz Kandiyoti, Khaled Fahmy, Mervat Hatem, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Omnia Shakry, and Zohreh T. Sullivan.The book is introduced by the editor with a piece called \"Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions,\" which masterfully interfaces the critical studies of feminism and modernism with scholarship on South Asia and the Middle East.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lila Abu-Lughod\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.19h x 6.12w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691057927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLila Abu-Lughod\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at New York University. She has written widely on women and gender in the Middle East. Her books include \u003ci\u003eVeiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWriting Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40463812853875,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":71.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f454d507-8dab-474e-9bf3-36d5984bcd25.jpg?v=1663940337","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/remaking-women-feminism-and-modernity-in-the-middle-east-9780691057927","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}