May Her Likes Be Multiplied : Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt

Booth, Marilyn

Published by Univ. of California Press (2001), Berkeley, 2001

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xxxviii,460 pp, 23x16cm, Contents: Scattered Pearls & Mistresses of Seclusion: Zaynab Fawwaz, Arabic Biographical Writing, & a Canon of Female Visibility; Siting Biography: A Politics of Address; Exemplar & Exception: Biography in the Journal for Women; May Our Daughters Listen: Readers, Writers, Teachers; Catherine the Great's Embroidery & Maria Mitchell's Stewpot: Discursive Domesticities; Jeannne d'Arc: Egyptian Nationalist: Community, Identity, & Difference; From Sober to Salacious: Women's Biography as Spectacle; Famous Wombs & Women's Memories: Gender, Nation & Life Writing in Today's Egypt. Some minor wear & binding soil. Some light binding stains. VG. Seller Inventory # 004217

Bibliographic Details

Title: May Her Likes Be Multiplied : Biography and ...

Publisher: Univ. of California Press (2001), Berkeley

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: orig.cloth