Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi‐Colonial Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12227096 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanan Kholoussy (American University in Cairo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 677-691 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0953-5233 • E-ISSN: 1468-0424 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01607.x |
| OpenAlex | W1488724557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This article examines the ways Egyptians monitored male sexuality in Ottoman and semi‐colonial Egypt. An exploration of the legislative proposals and press debates about marriage, prostitution and venereal disease reveals that the state attempted to medicalise the sexuality of Egyptian men to create ‘healthy’, disciplined men who would later marry and form fit families to serve as the foundation for a strong postcolonial nation. In their attempts to medicalise male sexuality, reformers delineated the normative heterosexuality of the ‘healthy’ male colonial subject for the emerging nation. This article explores the sexual practices of male colonial subjects to demonstrate how Egyptian notions of sexual diseases were gendered
Colonialism · Heterosexuality · Human sexuality · Legislature · Normative · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Subject (documents · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law
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Penser les masculinités en Afrique et au-delà
| Citations per year | 0.53 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |