Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Note on Transliterations xi
5. Introduction. Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions 1
6. Part One. REWRITING FEMINIST BEGINNINGS: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
7. Chapter 1. Women, Medicine, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Egypt 35
8. Chapter 2. A’isha Taymur’s Tears and the Critique of the Modernist and the Feminist Discourses on Nineteenth-Century Egypt 73
9. Part Two. MOTHERS, WIVES, AND CITIZENS: THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
10. Chapter 3. Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran 91
11. Chapter 4. Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egyp 126
12. Chapter 5. The Egyptian Lives of Jeanne d’Arc 171
13. Part Three. ISLAMISM, MODERNISM, AND FEMINISMS: THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
14. Chapter 6. Eluding the Feminist, Overthrowing the Modern? Transformations in Twentieth-Century Iran 215
15. Chapter 7. The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics 243
16. Afterword. Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey 270
17. Contributors 289
18. Index 291