Marilyn Booth May Her Likes Be Mult...

Marilyn Booth May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and inflection for sex Politics in Egypt. Berkeley: U of California P 2001 460 pp ISBN 0-52022419-1 $6500 cloth; ISBN 0-520-22420-5 $3500 paper.

"We ask lord to reward her well and to multiply her likes among women in such a manner the East will advance. For no land ascends except by means of its women (109) This is the quotation from which Marilyn Booth derived the title of her work May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and sex Politics in Egypt. The source quotation was published in the biography entitled Young Woman of the East