LEADER 04727nam 22006131 450 001 9910808641303321 005 20200124110340.0 010 $a0-7556-0876-3 010 $a0-85772-559-9 024 7 $a10.5040/9780755608768 035 $a(CKB)3710000000829249 035 $a(EBL)4644115 035 $a(OCoLC)957128062 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4644115 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09264799 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9780755608768BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000829249 100 $a20200131d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aGendering culture in greater Syria $eintellectuals and ideology in the late Ottoman Period /$fby Fruma Zachs and Sharon Halevi 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cI.B. Tauris,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 225 1 $aLibrary of Middle East History ;$v51 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78076-936-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction -- From Difa al-Nisa to Mas'alat al-Nisa: Readers and Writers Debate Women and Their Rights, 1858-1900 -- Love, Marriage and Social Reform and the Early Arabic Novel -- Repaving the Path of Muru'a: Manly Virtue and the Emergence of a Modern Masculinity in Greater Syria -- Like a Planet without a Star: The Glocalization of Domestic Discourse -- The Missing Link: The Nahda Novelists from Social Commentary to Political Critique -- Beyond the Marriage Plot: Marriage, Sexuality and the Rise of Outlaw Emotions in the Turn of the Century Novels -- Conclusions. 330 $a"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 re-examines the cultural by-products 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. The authors explore contemporary ideas concerning modern gender roles in the Middle East, and the extent to which these emerged in nineteenth-century Greater Syria. How were these ideas incorporated into daily lives, consumer patterns and cultural activities? Was class a determining factor in the creation of gender relations in the Muslim world? How were the subjectivities of gender moulded and articulated in fictional and non-fictional texts? The authors delineate both the evolution of a discourse on gender as well the "real-life" activities of men and women as writers, readers and participants in philanthropic and cultural societies, literary salons and educational enterprises. This book reemphasizes the position of the Nahda in the worlds of Damascus, Aleppo and Beirut as an innovative, deeply influential, and significant socio-cultural and political movement in its own right, which played a major role in shaping modern Arab culture, worldviews and self-perception. Zachs and Halevi here provide a new framework for rethinking the dynamics of cultural and social change, and present a groundbreaking new interpretation of the cumulative impact of the Nahda on gender perception in the late Ottoman Period."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aLibrary of Middle East history ;$v51. 606 $aWomen$zLebanon$xIntellectual life$y19th century 606 $aWomen$zLebanon$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aWomen$zSyria$xIntellectual life$y19th century 606 $aWomen$zSyria$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aColonialism & imperialism$2BIC 615 0$aWomen$xIntellectual life 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions 615 0$aWomen$xIntellectual life 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions 615 7$aColonialism & imperialism. 676 $a956.9103 676 $a956.9103 700 $aZachs$b Fruma$01664584 702 $aHalevi$b Sharon$f1958- 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808641303321 996 $aGendering culture in greater Syria$94022696 997 $aUNINA