Working Out Egypt - Effendi Masculinity Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity,

Informationen zum Autor Wilson Chacko Jacob is an Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University, Montreal. Klappentext Historical study that looks at the centrality of the masculine body--particularly in sports and physical culture--to notions of modernity in colonial Egypt. Zusammenfassung Describes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Imagination: Projecting British Masculinity 27 2. Genealogy: Mustafa Kamil and Effendi Masculinity 44 3. Institution: Physical Culture and Self-Government 65 4. Association: Scouting, Freedom, Violence 92 5. Games: International Culture and Desiring Bodies 125 6. Communication: Sex, Gender, and Norms of Physical Culture 156 7. Fashion: Global Affects of Colonial Modernity 186 8. Knowledge: Death, Life, and the Sovereign Other 225 Notes 263 Bibliography 359 Index 409

Product details

• Authors: Wilson Chacko Jacob
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2011
• EAN: 9780822346623
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4662-3
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ägypten, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt), HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, History - General History