May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt
by Marilyn Booth
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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.Tags
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Marilyn Booth is Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor of the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford. She has published monographs on exemplary biography in the Arabic women's press and vernacular writing in Egypt, and she is editor of Haren Histories (2011) and co-editor of The Long 1890s in Egypt (Edinburgh University Press, show more 2014). show less
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 920.72 — History & geography Biographies, Genealogy, Healdry Biographies Famous People of Native Nations Women
- LCC
- CT21 .B52 — Auxiliary Sciences of History Biography Biography Biography as an art or literary form
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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