Liberation of Women and the New Woman Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism

Name: Liberation of Women and the New Woman Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism
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ISBN: 9789774245671

ISBN-10: 9774245679

ISBN-13: 9789774245671

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Authors: Qasim Amin, Samiha Sidhom Peterson

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Qasim Amin (1863-1908), an Egyptian lawyer, is best known for his advocacy of women's emancipation in Egypt, through a number of works including The Liberation of Women and The New Woman. In the first of these important books in 1899, he started from the premise that the liberation of women was an essential prerequisite for the liberation of Egyptian society from foreign domination, and used arguments based on Islam to call for an improvement in the status of women. In doing so, he promoted the debate on women in Egypt from a side issue to a major national concern, but he also subjected himself to severe criticism from the khedival palace, as well as from religious leaders, journalists, and…

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List price: $19.95
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 5/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Eduardo Nolla is Professor of Political Philosophy and chairman of the Department of Political Science at the Universitas Nebrissensis in Madrid. He has recently published the first critical, revised, and augmented edition of Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

Samiha Sidhom Peterson, is a professor of sociology at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.