
Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces
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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 fi tabaqat rabbat al-khudur (Pearls scattered in times and places: Classes of ladies of cloistered spaces, 1893-6) - featuring Boudicca, Catherine the Great, Zaynab (the granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad), Victoria Woodhull, the Turkish poet Sirri Hanim and many others - built on the Arabic-Islamic biographical tradition to produce a work for women in the modern era, grafting European, Turkish, Arab, and Indian life narratives, amongst others onto Arabic literary patterns
In Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces Marilyn Booth argues that Fawwaz's work was less 'exemplary biography' than feminist history, in its exploration of achievement but also of patriarchal trauma in the lives of women across times and places. She traces Fawwaz's creative use of her sources, her presentation of biographical narratives in the context of the political essays she wrote in the Arabic press, her publicised dialogue with the President of the Board of Lady Managers of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition - where she attempted to send the volume - and how her inscription of a feminine ancient history diverged from that of men writing history in 1890s Egypt.
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- Intro
- Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Pearls Scattered: An Introduction
- II A Women's World History, in the World of Arabic Letters: A Reader's View
- III Founding Mothers, Speaking Sisters: Lineaments of Community in History
- IV Writerly Pursuits: A Compiler's Archive
- V A Beckoning Compass, Circulating Lives: The Bustani Encyclopedia and Other Nineteenth-century Sources
- VI Interlocutors? Men Authoring Women's History in the 1890s
- VII Framing a History of the Present:or, Did the Pearls Scatter to the World's Fair?
- VIII Violent Romances: The Bodily Drama of Patriarchal Trauma
- Appendix I: Translations
- Appendix II: List of Fawwaz's Pearls
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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