Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History Through Biography in Fin-De-Siecle Egypt

by Marilyn Booth

Zaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) was as 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 (the granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad), Victoria Woodhull, the Turkish poet Sirri Hanim...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748694862
• ISBN13: 9780748694860
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"