Nurturing the Nation
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1919 egyptian revolution
19th century
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Author_Lisa Pollard
bourgeois family
british colonial rule
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class changes
colonialism
cultural perspective
domesticity
economic growth
egypt
egyptian nationalism
elite classes
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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
Product details
- ISBN 9780520240230
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
