For Better, For Worse
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- Synopsis
- In early 20th-century Cairo, the "marriage crisis," a perceived rise in the number of middle class men choosing bachelorhood over marriage, was a subject of great concern among the urban middle class and an issue they felt demanded government intervention because it signified the demise of the nation. For Kholoussy (history and Middle East studies, The American U. in Cairo, Egypt), the discourse of the "marriage crisis" served as a metaphor for middle-class understandings of gender, national identity, law, and other socioeconomic and political concerns. He compares and contrasts this middle class discourse of the "marriage crisis" in the Cairo press with urban lower, middle, and upper class discourses that emerge from analysis of cases in the Islamic courts between 1898 and 1936. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780804773539
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780804769594, 9780804769600
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/31/17
- Copyrighted By:
- the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.