Creating the New Egyptian Woman: Consumerism, Education, and National Identity, 1863-1922

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Springer, 2004 M11 12 - 237 páginas
A "New Woman" was announced in Egypt at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a new genre of prescriptive literature, new products, a new education, and a physically changed home, she increasingly emerged in public life. This book discusses and debates the place of Egyptian women, while focusing on consumerism and education. Russell sheds much-needed light on the struggle for identity in Egypt at a time of considerable flux and tension and provides a powerful angle to explore changing concepts of social dynamics and broader debates of what it meant to be "modern" while retaining local authenticity.
 

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1 Introduction
1
Part I The Household Consumerism and the New Woman
9
Part II Teaching the New Woman
96
Abbreviations
170

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Mona L. Russell has taught at the American University in Cairo, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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