1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910134042503321

Titolo

Hadassah newsletter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783133203321

Autore

Pollard Lisa

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005

ISBN

0520230235

1-282-76298-2

1-59734-779-5

9786612762987

0-520-93753-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

306.85/0962

Soggetti

Families - Egypt - History

Family policy - Egypt - Cross-cultural studies - History

Egypt History 19th century

Egypt History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.