Wayward Subjects and Negotiated Disciplines

Appearing on the back pages of the Cairo daily newspaper al-Muʾayyad in September 1891 and December 1889, respectively, these brief reports, juxtaposed, encapsulate some central arguments of the books under review. They exemplify everyday resort to state apparatuses for individual or collective ends, and invoke consumption practices viewed as inimical to national health and reputation at a time when the new nationalist press was beginning to voice senses of collective pride, political unease, and anticolonial antagonism. They entail perceptions of transgressed boundaries, wayward actions, or gender-inappropriate behaviors impervious to commonly recognized moral and political authority. They illustrate blurrings of “public” and “private” actions and spaces, whether in the name of public good or for ill, that might have threatened Egyptians’ felt values of moral propriety—the disciplining pull of “respectability”—in urban Egyptian society at that time. And the reportage, publication, and circulation of such stories illustrate (and make) an emerging “public sphere” of narrative, commentary, and reader consumption, simultaneously constructing and interrogating an emerging nationalist master-narrative that placed gender-marked acts and sexual practices, transgressive or not, at the center of national/ist efficacy and perceived threats to it

Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Pride · Public sphere · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society

• Gender

  Joan Wallach Scott•Gender and the Politics of History•1988

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• Specters of Mother India

  Daniel J Walkowitz, Mrinalini Sinha•Specters of Mother India•2006

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• Women, Islam and the State

  Open Access•Deniz Kandiyoti•Women, Islam and the State•1991

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• Women, Islam and the State

  Deniz Kandiyoti•Middle East Report•1991

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• Gender

  Joan W Scott•The American Historical Review•1986

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• The Effendiyya

  Open Access•Noga Efrati•International Journal Middle East…•2011

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• Woman in Islam

  Open Access•Marilyn Booth•International Journal Middle East…•2001

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• Economic and Political Liberation in Egypt and the Demise of State Feminism

  Open Access•Mervat Hatem, Mervat F Hatem•International Journal Middle East…•1992

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