Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East

by Lila Abu-Lughod

Book Overview

Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the "woman question" in the Middle East (most particularly in Egypt and Iran), especially at the turn of the century, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691057923
• ISBN13: 9780691057927
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"