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- Title
From Husbands and Housewives to Suckers and Whores: Marital-Political Anxieties in the ‘House of Egypt’, 1919–48.
- Authors
Pollard, Lisa
- Abstract
This article traces the transformation in the symbolic role of the modern, bourgeois Egyptian home and the political and personal relationships it allegedly engendered, showing that what had originally appeared as promising became the potential site of treason and deceit. The article relies on archival materials, political caricatures and articles from the popular press. Beginning with an assessment of the political discourse of 1919, it then illustrates how, by the 1930s, home life and marriage appeared as zones of crisis rather than promise. By the late 1940s, as a stand-in for political commentary, the domicile appeared as a space from which men had to escape at all costs, presaging a revolution in which a new political order would restore the household to its previous order and centrality.
- Subjects
EGYPT; HOUSEHOLDS; HOME economics; BOURGEOIS sociology; INTERPERSONAL relations; HOUSEHOLD ecology; EGYPTIAN history; HISTORY
- Publication
Gender & History, 2009, Vol 21, Issue 3, p647
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0424.2009.01563.x