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.
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.
Über den Autor
Amy Kallander is Associate Professor Middle East History and affiliated faculty with the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Syracuse University. She is the author of Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia (2013) and a contributor to The Making of the Tunisian Revolution (2013) and A Companion to Global Gender History (2020).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Between State Feminism and Global Sisterhood; 2. Family Planning as Development: Urban Women, Rural Families, and Reproductive Justice; 3. Postcolonial Tunisian Academics: Between International Aid, National Imperatives, and Local Knowledge; 4. Fashion, Consumption, and Modern Gender Roles; 5. Love and Sex: The Limits of Modern Womanhood and Heterosexual Masculinity; Conclusion: Love, Politics, and Bread.
