Access Today Gendering Culture In Greater Syria: Intellectuals And Ideology In The Late Ottoman Period Drafted By Fruma Zachs Compiled As EText

great read for both the history of feminisms in Greater Syria but also for literary history.
I have a deep urge to delve back into my college materials for comparative readings of early American and British novels to get a better sense of the nuances in a global conversation about domesticity, femininity/masculinity, and the living conditions of women in every socioeconomic class.
I'd planned to give this one to my local library, but I think I need to hang onto it for a while.
The Nahda lit. 'the Awakening' was one of the most significant cultural movements in modern Arab history, By focusing on the neglected role of women in the intellectual Islamic renaissance of the late Ottoman Period, Fruma Zachs and Sharon Halevi provide a refreshingly interdisciplinary exploration of gender and culture

in the Arab World.
Focusing mainly on 'Greater Syria', this book reexamines the cultural byproducts of the Nahda such as scientific debates, journal articles, essays, short stories and novels and provides a new framework for rethinking the dynamics of cultural and social change in what today we know as Syria and Lebanon.
The lasting impact of the Nahda is given an innovative and thoroughly unique interpretation, providing an indispensable perspective to studying the nuanced roles of the construction and development of gender ideologies in the nineteenth century Middle East.
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