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For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt
Hanan Kholoussy
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Description for For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt
Hardback. For Better, For Worse explores how marriage became the lens through which Egyptians critiqued larger socioeconomic and political concerns under British rule in the early twentieth century. Num Pages: 200 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSJ; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. .
For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage. Voicing anxieties over a presumed increase in bachelorhood, Egyptians also used the failings of Egyptian marriage to criticize British rule, unemployment, the disintegration of female seclusion, the influx of women into schools, middle-class materialism, and Islamic laws they deemed incompatible with modernity.
For Better, For Worse explores how marriage became the lens through which Egyptians critiqued larger ... Read more
For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage. Voicing anxieties over a presumed increase in bachelorhood, Egyptians also used the failings of Egyptian marriage to criticize British rule, unemployment, the disintegration of female seclusion, the influx of women into schools, middle-class materialism, and Islamic laws they deemed incompatible with modernity.
For Better, For Worse explores how marriage became the lens through which Egyptians critiqued larger ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804769594
SKU
V9780804769594
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About Hanan Kholoussy
Hanan Kholoussy is Assistant Professor of History and Middle East Studies at The American University in Cairo.
Reviews for For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt
"[T]his book has opened up a new area of research and raised provocative questions about early twentieth-century Egyptian family history that complements the existing scholarship on the women's movement and women's writing."
Kenneth M. Cuno
American Historical Review
"Exploring the marriage crisis in early 20th century Egypt, Kholoussy contributes a richly documented and original study that engages ... Read more
Kenneth M. Cuno
American Historical Review
"Exploring the marriage crisis in early 20th century Egypt, Kholoussy contributes a richly documented and original study that engages ... Read more