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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Booth, Marilyn (1955-....)
Titre(s) : Classes of ladies of cloistered spaces [Texte imprimé] : writing feminist history through biography in fin-de-siècle Egypt / Marilyn Booth
Publication : Edinburgh : Edinburgh university press, copyright 2015
Description matérielle : V-466 pages ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-455) and index
Zaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) was a forceful voice in support of women's rights to education
and work choices in colonial-era Egypt. Her volume of 453 women's lives, al-Durr al-manthur
fi tabaqat rabbat al-khudur (Pearls scattered in times and places: Classes of ladies
of cloistered spaces, 1893-6) - featuring Boudicca, Catherine the Great, Zaynab (granddaughter
of the Prophet Muhammad), Victoria Woodhull, the Turkish poet Sirri Hanim and many
others - built on the Arabic-Islamic biographical tradition to produce a work for
women in the modern era, grafting European, Turkish, Arab and Indian life narratives,
amongst others, onto Arabic literary patterns. In Classes of Ladies of Cloistered
Spaces Marilyn Booth argues that Fawwaz's work was less 'exemplary biography' than
feminist history, in its exploration of achievement but also of what Booth labels
patriarchal trauma in the lives of women across times and places. She traces Fawwaz's
creative use of her sources, her presentation of biographical narratives in the context
of the political essays she wrote in the Arabic press, her publicised dialogue with
the President of the Board of Lady Managers of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition
- where she attempted to send the volume - and how her inscription of a feminine ancient
history diverged from that of men writing history in 1890s Egypt
Sujet(s) : Fawwāz, Zaynab (1860-1914)
Féminisme -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780748694860. - ISBN 0748694862 (rel.). - ISBN 9781474403412 (e-book). - ISBN
9780748694877 (PDF)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455432333
Notice n° :
FRBNF45543233
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
