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Author |
: Huda Shaarawi |
Publisher |
: The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2015-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781558619111 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1558619119 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harem Years by : Huda Shaarawi
A firsthand account of the private world of a harem in colonial Cairo—by a groundbreaking Egyptian feminist who helped liberate countless women. In this compelling memoir, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her marriage at age thirteen. Her subsequent separation from her husband gave her time for an extended formal education, as well as an unexpected taste of independence. Shaarawi’s feminist activism grew, along with her involvement in Egypt’s nationalist struggle, culminating in 1923 when she publicly removed her veil in a Cairo railroad station, a daring act of defiance. In this fascinating account of a true original feminist, readers are offered a glimpse into a world rarely seen by westerners, and insight into a woman who would not be kept as property or a second-class citizen.
Author |
: Hudá Shaʻrāwī |
Publisher |
: Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0935312706 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780935312706 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harem Years by : Hudá Shaʻrāwī
In this firsthand account of the private world of a harem in colonial Cairo, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her marriage at age thirteen. Her subsequent separation from her husband gave her time for an extended formal education, as well as an unexpected taste of independence. Shaarawi's feminist activism grew, along with her involvement in Egypt's nationalist struggle, culminating in 1923 when she publicly removed her veil in a Cairo railroad station, a daring act of defiance.
Author |
: Annick Cojean |
Publisher |
: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2013-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802121721 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802121721 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gaddafi's Harem by : Annick Cojean
Follows a fifteen-year-old girl who, after presenting Gaddafi with a bouquet of flowers during a visit to her school, was summoned to his compound where she, along with a number of young women, was violently abused, raped, and degraded.
Author |
: Nawar Al-Hassan Golley |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2010-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780292784413 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0292784414 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies by : Nawar Al-Hassan Golley
Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their readers. This process of self-creation raises a number of intriguing questions: why and how does anyone choose to present herself or himself in an autobiography? Do women and men represent themselves in different ways and, if so, why? How do differences in culture affect the writing of autobiography in various parts of the world? This book tackles these questions through a close examination of Arab women's autobiographical writings. Nawar Al-Hassan Golley applies a variety of western critical theories, including Marxism, colonial discourse, feminism, and narrative theory, to the autobiographies of Huda Shaarawi, Fadwa Tuqan, Nawal el-Saadawi, and others to demonstrate what these critical methodologies can reveal about Arab women's writing. At the same time, she also interrogates these theories against the chosen texts to see how adequate or appropriate these models are for analyzing texts from other cultures. This two-fold investigation sheds important new light on how the writers or editors of Arab women's autobiographies have written, documented, presented, and organized their texts.
Author |
: Jillian Lauren |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2010-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780452296312 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0452296315 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Some Girls by : Jillian Lauren
A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties. More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.
Author |
: Megan Derr |
Publisher |
: Less Than Three Press, LLC |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620044124 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620044129 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Harem Master by : Megan Derr
Lord Demir has spent his life trying to appease a brutal, selfish king, and keep the concubines under his care alive—and now he is on the verge of losing everything. The council wants to abolish the harems, there are no heirs to the throne, and the foreigners control the Steward. One wrong move will tip tensions into civil war. Crown Prince Ihsan returns to find his home in turmoil, and the royal court so full of vipers it's impossible to say which of them will strike first. Removing his father from the throne, one way or another, should be a simple matter. Staying alive and proving himself a worthy king will be far more difficult. Crown Princess Euren has spent the last five years in hiding so that she could not be used against her father or Ihsan. But she is the daughter of a soldier, never meant to wear a crown, never trained to fight battles where words are the weapon of choice. If she hopes to keep herself and her loved ones alive, she'll have to learn fast.
Author |
: Alev Lytle Croutier |
Publisher |
: WW Norton |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2013-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780789260543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0789260549 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harem: The World Behind the Veil (25th Anniversary Edition) by : Alev Lytle Croutier
A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages. “I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha,” writes Alev Lytle Croutier. “People around me often whispered things about harems; my own grandmother and her sister had been brought up in one.” Drawing on a host of firsthand accounts and memoirs, as well as her own family history, Croutier explores life in the world’s harems, from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century, focusing on the fabled Seraglio of Topkapi Palace as a paradigm for them all. We enter the slave markets and the lavish boudoirs of the sultanas; we witness the daily routines of the odalisques, and of the eunuchs who guarded the harem. Here, too, we learn of the labyrinthine political scheming among the sultan’s wives, his favorites, and the valide sultana—the sultan’s mother—whose power could eclipse that of the sultan himself. There were the harems of the sultans and the pashas, but there were also “middle-class” harems, the households in which ordinary men and women lived out ordinary—albeit polygamous—lives. Croutier reveals their marital customs, child-rearing practices, and superstitions. Finally, she shows how this Eastern institution invaded the European imagination—in the form of decoration, costume, and art—and how Western ideas, in turn, finally eroded a system that had seemed eternal. Juxtaposing a rich array of illustrations—Western paintings, Turkish and Persian miniatures, family photographs, and even film stills—Croutier demystifies the Western erotic fantasy of “the world behind the veil.” This revised and updated 25th anniversary edition of Harem includes a new introduction by the author, revisiting her subject in light of recent events in Turkey, and the world.
Author |
: Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2012-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857737779 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857737775 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Casting off the Veil by : Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi
In 1923, when the pioneer of feminist activism, Huda Shaarawi, removed her veil in Cairo's train station, she created what became a landmark (and much-copied) gesture for feminists throughout Egypt and the Middle East and cemented her status as one of the most important feminists in twentieth-century Egypt. In Casting off the Veil, her granddaughter Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi uses never-before seen letters and photographs to explore the life and thought of Egypt's first feminist, as she campaigned against British occupation, as well as striving to improve conditions for women throughout the country. From her birth into a wealthy and powerful family, her early years spent in a harem, to her iconic status as one of the most influential feminists in Middle Eastern history, this is a fascinating portrait of a determined and ground-breaking woman, a rich and important story which will captivate everyone with an interest in Egyptian, feminist or colonial history.
Author |
: Mary Ann Fay |
Publisher |
: Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2012-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815651703 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815651708 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unveiling the Harem by : Mary Ann Fay
A history of elite women who were concubines and wives of powerful slave-soldiers, known as Mamluks, who dominated Egypt both politically and militarily in the eighteenth century.
Author |
: Dora Levy Mossanen |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2009-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780743233552 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0743233557 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harem by : Dora Levy Mossanen
Rich in visual imagery, Harem vividly depicts the exotic bazaars and dangerous alleys of the city and palace chambers brimming with conspiracy and betrayal—as well as love and redemption. A seductive and intriguing journey from the humble Persian Jewish quarter to the fascinating world of shahs, soothsayers, eunuchs, and sultanas, Harem follows three generations of strong-willed and cunning women: Rebekah—a poor girl married to the abusive blacksmith, Jacob the fatherless—who emerges from her disastrous match with a mysterious brand between her breasts; Gold Dust, Rebekah's treasured daughter, who enters the opulent and perilous world of the harem and captivates the shah with her singing bones; and Gold Dust's daughter, the revered and feared albino princess Raven, who will one day rule the empire.