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French Peasants and Others French Peasants and Others
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Jeanne in the Canon Jeanne in the Canon
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The Earliest Biographies The Earliest Biographies
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Jeanne d’Arc in the Nation’ Service Jeanne d’Arc in the Nation’ Service
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Nation and Homeland Nation and Homeland
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Faith, the Nation, and a Tragic End Faith, the Nation, and a Tragic End
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Class and Nation: the Peasant as Nationalist Icon Class and Nation: the Peasant as Nationalist Icon
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The Family: Nationalist Father, Nurturing Mother The Family: Nationalist Father, Nurturing Mother
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After the Battle: the Heroine as Homebody After the Battle: the Heroine as Homebody
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Community and Communities Community and Communities
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A Conclusion A Conclusion
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An Epilogue An Epilogue
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6 Jeanne d’Arc, Egyptian Nationalist: Community, Identity, and Difference
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Published:July 2001
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Abstract
From Hatshepsut to Safiyya Zaghlūl, from Eleanor Roosevelt to Betsy Taqlā to Jeanne d'Arc, biographical subjects “East” and “West” are united textually by “love of nation.” Ironically, putting “nation” first meant celebrating “national” loyalties of Western subjects without attending to their implications for global power relations. Such a silence mirrored women's magazines' self-distancing from “politics.” For a publicly visible Syrian in Egypt such as Taqlā, it was most comfortable to collapse watan and “East” to define patriotism as pride in “the East.” Of the hundreds of “Famous Women” profiled in women's magazines in Egypt before 1940, Jeanne d'Arc appeared most frequently of all. This chapter examines the motifs and rhetoric that constructed a Jeanne suitable for local consumption, emphases which furthered liberal nationalist agendas on the politics of religious identity and gender simultaneously. It discusses how the politics of gender and nation intersected with the fact of Jeanne's Westernness: for biographers in Egypt territorialized and domesticated this icon of Western nationalism, feminism, and subnational resistances to national hegemonies.
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