The Scientisation of Culture: Colonial Medicine's Construction of Egyptian Womanhood, 1893–1929.
From Great Britain's colonial takeover of Egypt's School of Medicine and adjoining hospital in 1893 until its return to Egyptian control in 1929, this study argues that colonial medical discourse constructed a trope of the ‘modern Egyptian woman’ as a byproduct of the discursive exchange between Vic...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 83 - 99 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2004
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