Nurturing the Nation : The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923.

Focusing on gender and the family, this erudite and innovative history reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism and the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class and household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule. Lisa Pollard deftly argues that the E...

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Author / Creator: Pollard, Lisa.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • 1. My House and Yours: Egyptian State Servants and the New Geography of Nationalism
  • 2. Inside Egypt: The Harem, the Hovel, and the Western Construction of an Egyptian National Landscape
  • 3. Domesticating Egypt: The Gendered Politics of the British Occupation
  • 4. The Home, the Classroom, and the Cultivation of Egyptian Nationalism
  • 5. Table Talk: The Home Economics of Nationhood
  • 6. Reform on Display: The Family Politics of the 1919 Revolution
  • Conclusion: It's a Girl! Gender and the Birth of Modern Egyptian Nationalism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.