For Better, for Worse The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt

Name: For Better, for Worse The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt
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ISBN: 9780804769600

ISBN-10: 0804769605

ISBN-13: 9780804769600

Edition: 2010

Authors: Hanan Kholoussy

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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 Worseexplores how marriage became the lens through which Egyptians critiqued larger socioeconomic and political…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/14/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Currency



The Making and Marrying of Modern Egyptians



The Grooming of Men



The Wedding of Women



Deterring Divorce, Modernizing Marriage



Mentoring Mothers, Fettering Fathers



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index