Please come to class prepared to discuss the following questions:

1. 1. Regarding feminism and nationalism: which came first for Egyptian women, as they organized their women's movement beginning in the 1920s?

1. 2. Why did Egyptian women become the vanguard (leaders) of Arab feminism? What was unique about Egypt and Egyptian society (if anything)?

1. 3. What kind of women became involved in the Egyptian women's movement, and why? What kind of women did not become involved? How did this compare to women from my article on the women's movements, overall, in the Middle East?

1. 4. What were Egyptian feminists' major political interests and issues? How did they express these interests and work on them? How effective were they? Were they feminist issues?

1. 5. What do you think of Badran's definition of feminism ? (p 19-20): "awareness of constraints placed upon women because of their gender and attempts to remove those constraints and to evolve a more equitable gender system involving new roles for women and new relations between women and men."

1. 6. What were some of the issues that surfaced between the western feminists in the international women's movement and the Egyptian feminists (Ch. 12) ?