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

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

Marilyn Booth

498 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction feminism religion challenging informative slow-paced
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Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biog...

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