Tunisia's Modern Woman Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s (Book)
Title: Tunisia's Modern Woman Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s
Author: Amy Aisen Kallander
Abstract: 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.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: http:////www.cambridge.org/core/books/tunisias-modern-woman/0AC2A92F45D9D129EAD5315AF5EFDA56
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781108961264
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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