Casting Off the Veil: The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt's First Feminist by Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi

Casting Off the Veil: The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt's First Feminist

Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi

320 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative inspiring slow-paced
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In 1923, when the pioneer of feminist activism, Huda Shaarawi, removed her veil in Cairo's train station, she created what became a landmark (and much-copied) gesture for feminists throughout Egypt and the Middle East and cemented her status as on...

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