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Soft Force: Women in Egypt's Islamic Awakening

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Full Title:

Soft Force: Women in Egypt's Islamic Awakening

Contributors:
ISBN:

9780691158495

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Publication Date:

4th August 2015

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Gender studies: women and girls

Dewey:

305.486970962

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

336

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 235mm

Weight:

454g

Description

In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country's public sphere. Soft Force examines the writings and activism of these women--including scholars, preachers, journalists, critics, ac

Reviews

Winner of the 2016 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies and Association of Middle East Women's Studies "Women's roles in the intellectual, organizational and political development of Islamist movements have rarely received the attention they deserve. McLarney focuses in depth on the writings of a wide array of Egyptian women involved with Islamist movements, presenting a nuanced and careful reading of their religious and political thought."--Marc Lynch, WashingtonPost.com's Monkey Cage blog "McLarney offers a different and highly important ... perspective, refreshingly free of the shadows of neo-orientalism."--Caron E. Gentry, Times Higher Education "McLarney (Arabic literature and culture, Duke Univ.) provides an intellectual history of women's ideas within the Islamist movement in Egypt over the past century... This work will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars in Islamic studies, women's studies, political science, and literary theory. It illuminates the essential role of women in the modern Islamist movement in a unique way."--Choice "Through her eloquent, sophisticated and careful analysis, McLarney offers a very important but somewhat overlooked contribution to the in depth understanding of the various roles of women in the historical and current developments within the Muslim world... The wealth of information in this volume makes it an important contribution to the study of Islamic revivalism, women and Islam within the context of 20th and 21st century developments in Egypt and the wider Middle East."--Katherine Ranharter, Ph.D., Journal of Global Analysis

Author Bio

Ellen McLarney is assistant professor of Arabic literature and culture at Duke University.

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