TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morrison,Heidi
TI  - Childhood and colonial modernity in Egypt
T2  - Palgrave studies in the history of childhood
AV  - HQ792.E35 M67 2015
U1  - 303.40962 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Children
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social change
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Colonial influence
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1882-1952
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4082239
ER  -