Working Out Egypt : Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940 /

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Working Out Egypt is both a rich cultural history of the formation of an Egyptian national subject in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, and a compelling critique of modern Middle Eastern historiography. Wilson Chacko Jacob describes how Egyptian men of a class akin to the cultural bou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacob, Wilson Chacko, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National characteristics, English > History > 19th century.
Masculinity > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
National characteristics, English.
Masculinity.
British colonies.
Anglais > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Masculinite > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Egypt > History > British occupation, 1882-1936.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > History > 19th century.
Great Britain.
Egypt.
Africa.
Égypte > Histoire > 1882-1936 (Occupation britannique)
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Afrique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Imagination : projecting British masculinity
  • Genealogy : Mustafa Kamil and effendi masculinity
  • Institution : physical culture and self-government
  • Association : scouting, freedom, violence
  • Games : international culture and desiring bodies
  • Communication : sex, gender, and norms of physical culture
  • Fashion : global affects of colonial modernity
  • Knowledge : death, life, and the sovereign other.

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