Del 17 - The Global Middle East

Tunisia's Modern Woman

Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Amy Aisen Kallander, New York) Kallander, Amy Aisen (Syracuse University

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Claims over women's liberation vocalized by Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba began with legal reforms related to family law in 1956. In this book, Amy Aisen Kallander uses this political appropriation of women's rights to look at the importance of women to post-colonial state-building projects in Tunisia and how this relates to other state-feminist projects across the Middle East and during the Cold War. Here we see how the notion of modern womanhood was central to a range of issues from economic development (via family planning) to intellectual life and the growth of Tunisian academia. Looking at political discourse, the women's press, fashion, and ideas about love, the book traces how this concept was reformulated by women through transnational feminist organizing and in the press in ways that proposed alternatives to the dominant constructions of state feminism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-02-08
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt434 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe Global Middle East
Antal sidor298
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108959490

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Introduction; 1. Between State Feminism and Global Sisterhood; 2. Family Planning as Development: Urban Women, Rural Families, and Reproductive Justice; 3. Postcolonial Tunisian Academics: Between International Aid, National Imperatives, and Local Knowledge; 4. Fashion, Consumption, and Modern Gender Roles; 5. Love and Sex: The Limits of Modern Womanhood and Heterosexual Masculinity; Conclusion: Love, Politics, and Bread.

'Amy Kallander's study is essential reading for those working to understand the lasting effects of 20th state feminism projects in the Middle East and North Africa. With careful research that includes key Tunisian periodicals and memoirs to supplement archival research, Kallander presents us also with a clear sense of Tunisian women's agency in navigating both national and international pressure to conform to particular formulations of modern womanhood. The analysis Kallander provides of the Tunisian experience offers a compelling basis for re-evaluating the contemporaneous experiences of women elsewhere in the region.' Camron Amin, University of Michigan