Writing a Her-story of Egypt. An Illustration of Islamic Women’s Movement in Post-colonial Egypt
| Date of Publication | June 17, 2014 |
| Author | Byeongsun Ahn |
| Editor | Cornelis Hulsman (editor-in-chief) |
| Language editor | Emily Stacey |
| Full Text | Muslims, who tend to be liberal in outlook. This category is shaped by a desire for Copts to assert their rights as Copts, leaving the church to take to the street and integrate with society. |
Summary:
The identity of Muslim women in post-colonial Egypt has largely been marginalized in the transition to modernity. A subalternized position of women that remains highly underrepresented in the nationalist/fundamentalist discourse of post-colonial politics coincides with a Western-oriented conceptualization of Muslim femininity that fails to understand the uniqueness of a female-Muslim identity in a post-colonial society. This article illustrates such conditions of modernity that deteriorates the sociopolitical position of Muslim women in post-colonial Egypt, as well as a collective mobilization for their distinctive interests, Muslim women's movement.
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