Heidi Morrison

Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-43277-3
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781137432773
• ISBN-10: 1137432772
• Artikelnr.: 41091044

Autorenporträt

Heidi Morrison is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA. She is the editor of The Global History of Childhood Reader (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Reforming Childhood in the Context of Colonialism 2.
Nation-Building and the Redefinition of the Child 3. Child-Rearing and
Class 4. Girls and the Building of Modern Egypt 5. Constructing National
Identity through Autobiographical Memory Conclusion Bibliography

Rezensionen

"This work situates children's lives and agency within the local frame of Egypt and in so doing contributes to a growing body of work on 'non-western childhoods.' ... this is a pioneering work on a highly important and much-neglected topic. No doubt Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt will pave the way for what may very well blossom into a new school for childhood studies in Egypt and the wider region of the Middle East and North Africa." (Linda Herrera, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol.10 (1), 2017)