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.