May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt

by Marilyn Booth

Book Overview

Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals. By 1940, hundreds of such biographies had been published, featuring Arabs, Turks, Indians, Europeans, North Americans, and ancient Greeks and Persians. Booth uses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520224205
• ISBN13: 9780520224209
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"