May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt

May Her Likes Be Multiplied

Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt

Marilyn Booth

Suggested citation:
Booth, Marilyn. May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2r29n8h7/

Acknowledgments
Technical Note

Prologue
1. Scattered Pearls and Mistresses of Seclusion
2. Siting Biography
3. Exemplar and Exception
4. May Our Daughters Listen
5. Catherine the Great's Embroidery and Maria Mitchell's Stewpot
6. Jeanne D'arc, Egyptian Nationalist
7. From Sober To Salacious
8. Famous Wombs and Women's memories

Selected Bibliography

Contents