Wilson Chacko Jacob

Working Out Egypt

Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940

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Produktbeschreibung

Historical study that looks at the centrality of the masculine body--particularly in sports and physical culture--to notions of modernity in colonial Egypt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 698g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346746
• ISBN-10: 0822346745
• Artikelnr.: 32901728

Autorenporträt

Wilson Chacko Jacob

Inhaltsangabe

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