Nurturing the nation : the family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt, 1805-1923 /

Focusing on gender & the family, this text reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism & the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class & household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule.

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Author / Creator: Pollard, Lisa (Автор)
Формат: eКнига Электронный ресурс
Язык:English
Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
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Online-ссылка:Click here for full text at JSTOR
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Итог:Focusing on gender & the family, this text reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism & the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class & household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule.
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 Egyptian state's modernizing projects in the nineteenth century reinforced ideals of monogamy and bourgeois domesticity among Egypt's elite classes and connected those ideals with political and economic success. At the same time, the British used domestic and personal practices such as polygamy, the harem, and the veiling of women to claim that the ruling classes had become corrupt and therefore to legitimize an open-ended tenure for themselves in Egypt. To rid themselves of British rule, bourgeois Egyptian nationalists constructed a familial-political culture that trained new generations of nationalists and used them to demonstrate to the British that it was time for the occupation to end. That culture was put to use in the 1919 Egyptian revolution, in which the reformed, bourgeois family was exhibited as the standard for "modern" Egypt.
Примечание:Print version record.
Объем:1 online resource (xv, 287 pages) : illustrations
Библиография:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-276) and index.
ISBN:0520937538
1597347795
9780520937536
9781597347792
Авторские замечания:Pollard Lisa :

Lisa Pollard is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. She is the coeditor of Families of a New World: Gender, Politics and State-Building in Global Perspective (2003).