For Better, for Worse : The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt
ISBN: 9780804769600 | 0804769605
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 2/1/2010
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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 incompa... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Currency | p. x |
| The Making and Marrying of Modern Egyptians | p. 1 |
| The Grooming of Men | p. 23 |
| The Wedding of Women | p. 49 |
| Deterring Divorce, Modernizing Marriage | p. 77 |
| Mentoring Mothers, Fettering Fathers | p. 99 |
| Conclusion | p. 123 |
| Notes | p. 131 |
| Bibliogra... MORE | p. 163 |
| Index | p. 179 |
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Hanan Kholoussy is Assistant Professor of History and Middle East Studies at The American University in Cairo.
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