{"title":"Marilyn Booth","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarilyn Booth’s works offer a compelling exploration of personal histories and cultural identity, blending memoir with insightful reflection. Readers can expect richly detailed narratives that illuminate complex lives shaped by social and political landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on intimate storytelling and thoughtful analysis, her books invite a deeper understanding of individual experience within wider historical contexts, making them essential reading for enthusiasts of \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"classes-of-ladies-of-cloistered-spaces-by-marilyn-booth-9781399564830","title":"Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) was a forceful voice in support of women's rights to education and work choices in colonial-era Egypt. Her volume of 453 women's lives, \u003ci\u003eal-Durr al-manthur fi tabaqat rabbat al-khudur\u003c\/i\u003e (Pearls scattered in times and places: Classes of ladies of cloistered spaces, 1893-6), featuring Boudicca, Catherine the Great, Zaynab (the granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad), Victoria Woodhull, the Turkish poet Sirri Hanim and many others, built on the Arabic-Islamic biographical tradition to produce a work for women in the modern era. It grafted European, Turkish, Arab, and Indian life narratives, amongst others, onto Arabic literary patterns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eClasses of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e, Marilyn Booth argues that Fawwaz's work was less 'exemplary biography' than feminist history, in its exploration of achievement but also of patriarchal trauma in the lives of women across times and places. She traces Fawwaz's creative use of her sources, her presentation of biographical narratives in the context of the political essays she wrote in the Arabic press, her publicised dialogue with the President of the Board of Lady Managers of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition where she attempted to send the volume, and how her inscription of a feminine ancient history diverged from that of men writing history in 1890s Egypt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933926015212,"sku":"9781399564830","price":134.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/486d3fdb0e1a1591265d3e2a8ae82bb7.jpg?v=1783891154"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/marilyn-booth.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}