Feminists, Islam, and Nation

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Feminists, Islam, and Nation is written by Margot Badran and published by Princeton University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1400821436 (ISBN 10) and 9781400821433 (ISBN 13).

The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that "feminism is Western" and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half of this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam.