Colonial rule worsened Egyptian women’s education despite feminist rhetoric

Evidence

To be sure, despite claims to emancipate women, the conditions for Egyptian women under British colonial rule did not improve, and in certain areas such as education they saw a further curtailment, as Ahmed notes. This state of affairs continues in the twenty-first century when imperial feminism was deployed to justify the US/NATO invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in 2001, as described in Chapter 3. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 159

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: British officials used women’s education as justification for Egyptian colonial rule; Early Egyptian feminism reproduced colonial patriarchal dominance under liberation’s guise. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1119; Imperial feminism weaponizes women’s rights rhetoric to justify colonial rule without improving women’s conditions — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 157 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Imperial feminism weaponizes women’s rights rhetoric to justify colonial rule without improving women’s conditions #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 157
• British officials used women’s education as justification for Egyptian colonial rule #corroborates (0.85)
• Early Egyptian feminism reproduced colonial patriarchal dominance under liberation’s guise. #qualifies (0.80) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1119
• Colonial education policy deliberately aimed to avoid creating nationalist intellectuals #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 856
• Education levels in Egypt stagnated or declined amid rapid population growth #corroborates (0.70) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 382