Classes of ladies of cloistered spaces : writing feminist history through biography in fin de siècle Egypt /

Explores the writing and influence of the first Arabic-language global biographical dictionary of women. Zaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) was as a forceful voice in support of women's rights to education and work choices in colonial-era Egypt. Her volume of 453 women's lives, al-Durr al-manthur...

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Main Author: Booth, Marilyn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015].
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