Nurturing the nation : the family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt (1805/1923) / Lisa Pollard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollard, Lisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Egypt--History.

Families.

Family policy--Egypt--Cross-cultural studies--History.

Family policy.

Egypt--History--19th century.

Egypt.

Egypt--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt 1805/1923

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2005

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

My house and yours

Egyptian state servants and the new geography of nationhood

Inside Egypt

The harem, the hovel and the Western construction of an Egyptian landscape

Domesticating Egypt

The gendered politics of the British occupation

The home, the schoolroom and the cultivation of Egyptian nationalism

Table talk, or the home economics of nationhood

The household on display

The family politics of the 1919 revolution

Gender and the birth of the modern Egyptian nation-state.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

0520937538

9780520937536

9781282762985

1282762982

9781597347792

1597347795

OCLC:

475933729