Nurturing the nation [electronic resource] : the family politics of modernizing, colonizing and liberating Egypt (1805/1923) / Lisa Pollard.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005Description: xiii, 287 pSubject(s): Families -- Egypt -- History | Family policy -- Egypt -- Cross-cultural studies -- History | Egypt -- History -- 19th century | Egypt -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.85/0962 LOC classification: HQ691.7 | .P65 2005Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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