ISBN: 9780520251540

Paperback: 302 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; New Ed edition, 2007
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm

Beth Baron is Professor of History at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Co-Director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is the author of The Women’s Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press (1994) and the coeditor of Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (1991) and Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (2000). Egypt as a Woman has been described as ‘a wonderful contribution to understanding Egyptian national and gender politics between the two world wars’.