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Author Kholoussy, Hanan.

Title For better, for worse : the marriage crisis that made modern Egypt / Hanan Kholoussy.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 188 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-177) and index.
Contents The making and marrying of modern Egyptians -- The grooming of men -- The wedding of women -- Deterring divorce, modernizing marriage -- Mentoring mothers, fettering fathers.
Summary For Better, For Worse explores how marriage became the lens through which Egyptians critiqued larger socioeconomic and political concerns under British rule in the early twentieth century.
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Subject Marriage -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century.
Marriage.
Egypt.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Nationalism -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalism.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1900-1936
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History.
History.
Electronic books -- History.
Subject Marriage.
Other Form: Print version: Kholoussy, Hanan. For better, for worse. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010 9780804769594 (DLC) 2009035618 (OCoLC)435422989
ISBN 9780804773539 (electronic book)
080477353X (electronic book)
9780804769594 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804769600 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0804769591 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804769605 (paperback ; alkaline paper)