Modernizing marriage family, ideology, and law in nineteenth and early twentieth century Egypt /

Cuno, Kenneth M., 1950-

Modernizing marriage family, ideology, and law in nineteenth and early twentieth century Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno. - New York : Syracuse University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Gender and globalization series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Marriage in politics : the obsolescence of household government and the shift to monogamy in the Khedival family -- Marriage in practice : the changing system of marriage and household formation -- Marriage reformed : modernist intellectuals and the new family ideology -- Marriage in law : transformations in the law applied -- Marriage codified : the invention of Egyptian personal status law -- Marriage modernized : the curious history of house of obedience.



9780815653165


Marriage--Egypt--20th century.
Marriage--Egypt--19th century.


Electronic Books.

HQ691 / .M634 2015