^ Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in ...
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Laura Bier - 2011
CONCLUSION The Legacies of State Feminism in an interview conducted a few years before her death in 1996, Latifa al-Zayyat told her interviewer that her landmark novel, The Open Door, hailed by critics as a poignant expression of the hopes and aspirations of a revolutionary generation, is now “an impossibility.”1 Over the last three decades, Nasserist narratives of modernity have been challenged by the failures of state socialism, the policy of infitah (open door policy) that began ...