Zaynab Fawwāz's Feminist Locutions.
Lebanese-Egyptian Zaynab Fawwāz (ca. 1850-1914) was an unusual presence in 1890s Egypt: an immigrant from Shīʿī south Lebanon, without major family support, she created an intellectual place for herself in the Cairo press, generating a forthright voice on women's needs as distinct from "the nation's...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 52; no. 1/2; pp. 37 - 68 |
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