Childhood and colonial modernity in Egypt / Heidi Morrison, assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA.

By: Morrison, Heidi [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave studies in the history of childhoodPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: 1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781137432780 (e-book)Subject(s): Children -- Egypt -- History -- 19th century | Children -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century | Children -- Egypt -- Social conditions | Social change -- Egypt -- History | Nationalism -- Egypt -- History | Egypt -- Social conditions | Egypt -- Colonial influence | Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1882-1952Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Childhood and colonial modernity in Egypt.DDC classification: 303.40962 LOC classification: HQ792.E35 | M67 2015Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
1. Reforming Childhood in the Context of Colonialism -- 2. Nation-Building and the Redefinition of the Child -- 3. Child-Rearing and Class -- 4. Girls and the Building of Modern Egypt -- 5. Constructing National Identity through Autobiographical Memory.
Scope and content: "The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were pivotal in contemporary Egyptian history. The country searched for an identity in the face of intensifying western imperialism, the emerging nation-state, changing gender roles, and a rising middle class. A new cultural conception of childhood emerged in Egypt that had a synergistic and synonymous relationship with this process of modernization. Modernization cannot be separated from reconceptualization of categories of age. This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt. The book uses unexplored Arabic sources such as the children's press and literature; as well as more familiar Arabic sources, such as autobiographies and the writings of Egyptian intellectuals--whose discussion of childhood has been so far ignored"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Reforming Childhood in the Context of Colonialism -- 2. Nation-Building and the Redefinition of the Child -- 3. Child-Rearing and Class -- 4. Girls and the Building of Modern Egypt -- 5. Constructing National Identity through Autobiographical Memory.

"The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were pivotal in contemporary Egyptian history. The country searched for an identity in the face of intensifying western imperialism, the emerging nation-state, changing gender roles, and a rising middle class. A new cultural conception of childhood emerged in Egypt that had a synergistic and synonymous relationship with this process of modernization. Modernization cannot be separated from reconceptualization of categories of age. This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt. The book uses unexplored Arabic sources such as the children's press and literature; as well as more familiar Arabic sources, such as autobiographies and the writings of Egyptian intellectuals--whose discussion of childhood has been so far ignored"--Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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