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Four women of Egypt : memory, geopolitics, and the Egyptian women's movement during the Nasser and Sadat Eras
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Salem, Sara (2017) Four women of Egypt : memory, geopolitics, and the Egyptian women's movement during the Nasser and Sadat Eras. Hypatia, 32 (3). pp. 593-608. doi:10.1111/hypa.12344 ISSN 0887-5367.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12344
Abstract
This article addresses the Egyptian women’s movement of the 1950s–1970s through a recent film entitled Four Women of Egypt, which focuses on the lives of four prominent Egyptian women active in the movement during that period. Using the concept of political memory, the article traces some of the major debates within the women’s movement throughout this era. By focusing on the ways in which these women conceptualize the geopolitical, I show that the twin concepts of imperialism and capitalism were central to the ways in which they understood gender. The result was a complex understanding of how gender intersected with Egypt's position within a broader global system of imperial capitalism. Following the transition in the 1970s to an open-market economy, the women's movement shifted away from critiques of imperialism and capitalism. This shift can be understood only in terms of geopolitics: the rise of neoliberalism in Egypt. New neoliberal policies had dramatic effects on the women’s movement, showing why both the rise and fall of the movement must be contextualized geopolitically and transnationally.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Hypatia | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0887-5367 | ||||||
Official Date: | 10 June 2017 | ||||||
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Volume: | 32 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 593-608 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/hypa.12344 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 June 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 June 2019 |
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