HIST 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Qasim Amin, Cairo University, Wafd Party
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Primary two: feminism in the middle east (pp. Nisaiyat (feminist pieces), address issues pertaining to egyptian women, including education, paid work, and especially proper public attire: she delivered the following remarks in 1909 as part of a weekly lecture series that catered to well-to-do cairo women. The lecture series was held in the hall of the. In the past, women sewed clothes for themselves and their households but men invented the sewing machine. Of course, we should do the latter: work at home now does not occupy more than half the day. How are we to know this since no holy book has spelled it out: specialised work for each sex is a matter of convention. We women are now unable to do hard work because we have not been accustomed to it. After centuries of enslavement by men, our minds rusted and our bodies weakened.
