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Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt

Revealing Reveiling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt

Zuhur, Sherifa

Paperback

Series: Suny Middle Eastern Studies

IslamWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0791409287
ISBN13: 9780791409282
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 1 1992
Pages: 207
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.07
Language: English

Explores the history of Muslim women and debates over gender, which have developed since the golden age of Islam.

In modern Egypt, the pace of Islamic resurgence has increased as in other Muslim societies. Throughout the twentieth century, Egyptian women have fought fiercely for political participation and for legal and educational reform to improve their status. To many of them, the adoption of a new form of the veil seemed retrogressive and ominous. This book explores the history of Muslim women and the debates over gender, which have developed since the golden age of Islam. It considers the opinions, goals, and ideals of fifty Egyptian women, veiled and unveiled, and compares their views to the gender ideology of the contemporary Islamists. Women's social backgrounds are examined in the context of the Egyptian state and its social policies.

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