"Kamran Ali, a Pakistani physician and anthropologist, takes an
original and multifaceted approach to understanding the
practicalities of family planning in Egypt." -- Nancy Gallagher,
author of Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public
Health
In this ethnographic study, the author examines the policies and
practices of family planning programs in Egypt to see how an
elitist, Western-informed state attempts to create obliging
citizens. The state sees voluntary compliance with the law for the
common good as the cornerstone of modernity. Family planning
programs are a training ground for the construction of
self-disciplined individuals, and thus a rewarding area of study
for the fate of social programs in developing countries.
Through a careful examination of state-endorsed family planning
practices in urban and rural contexts, the author shows us the
pervasive, high-pressure persuasion of women, who are encouraged to
think as individual decision makers of their immediate families and
their national interests. But what of the other forces at work in
these women's lives, binding them to their extended families and to
their religious identities? And what of the laws that allow for
polygamy and discriminate against women in marriage, inheritance,
and as part of the workforce?
These forces operate against the received wisdom of the state.
Is the Muslim community thought to end at the borders of Egypt?
What about local constructions of masculinity when the state
appeals to wives to decide for themselves? How does widespread
labor migration to foreign countries affect attitudes toward family
planning? How is female contraception viewed by the Islamic
Brotherhoodand other modern Muslim groups?
This book questions much that we have taken for granted and
gives us grounds for reexamining our assumptions about family
planning and the individual and state in developing countries such
as Egypt.
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