Tunisia''s Modern Woman : Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The Global Middle East
ISBN-10
1108959490
ISBN-13
9781108959490
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 8th, 2024
Print length
298 Pages
Weight
448 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.90 x 1.90 cms
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Looking at women, politics, and culture in Tunisia from 1950s independence to the 1970s, this book focuses on the notion of modern womanhood in order to trace the centrality of women in a wide range of issues from state-building, economic development, and intellectual life, to fashion, and romantic love.
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.
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