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

• Autore: Pollard Lisa
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.85/0962
• Soggetto topico: Families - Egypt - History; Family policy - Egypt - Cross-cultural studies - History
• Soggetto geografico: Egypt History 19th century; Egypt History 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: 1919 egyptian revolution; 19th century; bourgeois family; british colonial rule; class changes; colonialism; cultural perspective; domesticity; economic growth; egypt; egyptian nationalism; elite classes; familial political culture; family politics; family structure; gender norms; gender roles; historians; household structure; modern egypt; modernization; monogamy; political success; polygamy; postcolonialism; ruling classes; social changes; social history; social standards
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt 1805/1923
• Titolo autorizzato: Nurturing the nation
• ISBN: 0520230235; 1-282-76298-2; 1-59734-779-5; 9786612762987; 0-520-93753-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783133203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II