May her likes be multiplied : biography and gender politics in Egypt /

Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. In the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals. By 1940, hundreds of such biographies had bee...

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Main Author: Booth, Marilyn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001], ©2001
Berkeley : c2001
Berkeley : ©2001
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : c2001
Berkeley : [2001]
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