The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-De-Siècle Egypt

by Marilyn Booth

Zaynab Fawwaz (d. 1914) emerged from an obscure childhood in the Shi'I community of Jabal 'Amil (now Lebanon) to become a recognized writer on women's and girls' aspirations and rights in 1890s Egypt. This book insists on the centrality of gender as a marker of social difference to the Arabic knowledge movement then, or Nahda. Fawwaz published essays and engaged in debates in the Egyptian and Ottoman-Arabic press, published two novels, and the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192846191
• ISBN13: 9780192846198
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"