Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520224191
,
0520224205
Content:
Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-441) and index
,
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
,
Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Technical Note; Prologue; 1. scattered pearls and mistresses of seclusion; 2. siting biography: a politics of address; 3. exemplar and exception; 4. may our daughters listen: readers, writers, teachers; 5. catherine the great's embroidery and maria mitchell's stewpot; 6. jeanne d'arc, egyptian nationalist; 7. from sober to salacious; 8. famous wombs and women's memories; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520224193
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe May Her Likes Be Multiplied : Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Ägypten
;
Frau
;
Feminismus
;
Biografische Literatur
;
Feminismus
;
Geschichte 1879-1967
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9532
