Egypt as a Woman by the American writer Beth Baron, a professor at the City College of New York, is a historically rich book about the history of the Egyptian woman. It examines the influence of gender in shaping the Egyptian nation from the nineteenth century through the revolution of 1919 and into the 1940s.

In Egypt as a Woman, Beth Baron divides her narrative into two strands: the first depicts some images of the Egyptian nation and the second considers the political activities of women nationalists.

Baron debates in the introduction of the book the contradictory situation of the Egyptian women. She shows that, even though women were largely excluded from participation in the state, the visual imagery of nationalism was replete with female figures.

The book comprises a set of women figures and activists who strived for national independence and knocked out from the mind of history such as Labiba Ahmed. Moreover, she tackled the prominent Egyptian feminist starting form Safeyya Zaghloul until Rose al-Yousef.

Beth Baron is Professor of History at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Co-Director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is the author of The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press (1994) .