:Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805–1923статья из журнала
Аннотация: In 1882, Britain occupied Egypt and insisted that ordinary Egyptians would benefit from enlightened British rule. For the British, the practice of polygamy and the keeping of harems indicated that Egyptian society was morally unsound and in need of British tutelage. This was nothing new: the British made similar arguments to justify British imperial rule in India and Africa, and so did the French in Algeria. What should nationalists do to convince their occupying authorities that they were indeed ready for independence and not in need of their governance? In this engaging book, Lisa Pollard argues that in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century, Egyptian nationalists—men and women alike—sought to counter negative British assessments of Egyptian mores by forming new family arrangements based on monogamous marriages and by running households, schools, and charities along Western lines. Once in Egypt, however, the British made no attempt to pass laws against polygamy, child marriage, or forced marriage. They did not expand female education. Instead they firmly established British rule and limited the participation of Egyptians in politics. Within a few years, the Egyptian intelligentsia began calling for a liberal constitutional government run by modern Egyptians. To that end Egyptian women should be educated in order to create modern men. Earlier scholars such as Leila Ahmad, Margot Badran, and Beth Baron have argued that Egyptian elites wanted to educate a new generation of women homemakers to create a more promising future for Egyptians, that Egyptian women who came in contact with new European ideas then began to demand more freedom for themselves, and that the newly founded women's press stimulated support for the Egyptian nationalist movement and for women's participation in it. Pollard builds on and adds to the earlier histories by arguing that nationalists called on women to play the central role in the domestic realm. Since the domestic realm was the basis of the political realm, women could not play a role in public life because without them at home the political realm would collapse. This celebration of women's domestic role was a trap for women who wished to lead active lives outside the home.
Год издания: 2005
Авторы: Nancy Gallagher
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Источник: The American Historical Review
Ключевые слова: Islamic Studies and History, Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender, Marriage and Sexual Relationships
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Том: 110
Выпуск: 5
Страницы: 1635–1636