Wednesday's Read: The Liberation of Women and The New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism

Amin, Qasim, trans. Samiha Sidhom Peterson. The liberation of women; and The New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism. (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000)
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Al Jadid discussion of how Tahrir al-Mar'ah is used today
 

Chapter from Leila Ahmed's Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate.
 

Esmeir, Samera. "At Once Human and Not Human: Law, Gender and Historical Becoming in Colonial Egypt." Gender & History (Aug 2011, Vol. 23 Issue 2), 235-249