"Doria Shafik took the liberal ideology of the EFU one step further, becoming more militant in her reformist ideas and actions than Huda Sharawi. ...Shafik thought of herself as the symbol of the new Egyptian woman emerging after World War II—highly educated, articulate, internationalist, urbane, attractive, and elegantly dressed... She presented herself... as different from the secluded, traditionally clad, silent majority of Egyptian women. Militant while remaining feminine... out to conquer the male elite sphere of politics. At the beginning of her career she might have defended the upper classes as the "natural" rulers of Egypt... [in] La femme nouvelle. By the end of the 1940s, however, she was... becoming one of the leading spokespersons for the middle class, which she considered eligible to rule."
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Doria Shafik
(14 December 1908 – 20 September 1975) was an Egyptian feminist, poet and editor, and one of the principal leaders of the women's liberation movement in Egypt in the mid-1940s. As a direct result of her efforts, Egyptian women were granted the right to vote by the Egyptian constitution.
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