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Podcast: Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Episode: Amy Aisen Kallander, "Tunisia's Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Description: Following Tunisian independence in 1956, President Habib Bourguiba centered women’s liberation as part of the identity of the new nation. In Tunisia’s Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the 1960s (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Amy Aisen Kallander uses this political appropriation of women's rights to look at the importance of women to post-colonial state-building projects in Tunisia. She explores how the notion of modern womanhood was central to a range of issues from economic development and family planning to intellectual life and the growth of Tunisian academia. Looking at political discourse, popular culture, the women's press, fashion, and ideas...