This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt.

This work situates children's lives and agency within the local frame of Egypt and in so doing contributes to a growing body of work on 'non-western childhoods.' this is a pioneering work on a highly important and much-neglected topic. No doubt Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt will pave the way for what may very well blossom into a new school for childhood studies in Egypt and the wider region of the Middle East and North Africa. (Linda Herrera, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol.10 (1), 2017)

Autorentext
Heidi Morrison is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA. She is the editor of The Global History of Childhood Reader (2012).

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Reforming Childhood in the Context of Colonialism 2. Nation-Building and the Redefinition of the Child 3. Child-Rearing and Class 4. Girls and the Building of Modern Egypt 5. Constructing National Identity through Autobiographical Memory Conclusion Bibliography