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Tunisia’s Modern Woman provides a comprehensive historical analysis of women’s experiences and state policies in Tunisia during the transformative 1960s era. Author Amy Aisen Kallander examines how the newly independent Tunisian state leveraged feminism as a tool for modernization and nation-building, positioning women’s rights as central to national development and progress.
The book explores the intersections of gender, nationalism, and Cold War politics, revealing how Tunisian women navigated state-sponsored reforms while pursuing their own agency and aspirations. Kallander contextualizes Tunisia within the broader Global Middle East, demonstrating how local policies reflected and responded to international influences and ideological currents of the period.
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