Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Egypt by Kenneth M. Cuno

Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Egypt

Gender and Globalization

Kenneth M. Cuno

336 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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In 1910, when Khedive Abbas II married a second wife surreptitiously, the contrast with his openly polygamous grandfather, Ismail, whose multiple wives and concubines signified his grandeur and masculinity, could not have been greater. That contra...

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