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Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt
investigates the use of medicine as a 'tool of empire' to serve the
state building process in Egypt by the British colonial
administration. It argues that the colonial state effectively
transformed Egyptian medical practice and medical knowledge in ways
that were decidedly gendered. On the one hand, women medical
professionals who had once trained as 'doctresses' (hakimas) were
now restricted in their medical training and therefore saw their
social status decline despite colonial modernity's promise of
progress. On the other hand, the introduction of colonial medicine
gendered Egyptian medicine in ways that privileged men and
masculinity. Far from being totalized colonial subjects, Egyptian
doctors paradoxically reappropriated aspects of Victorian science
to forge an anticolonial nationalist discourse premised on the
Egyptian woman as mother of the nation. By relegating Egyptian
women - whether as midwives or housewives - to maternal roles in
the home, colonial medicine was determinative in diminishing what
control women formerly exercised over their profession, homes and
bodies through its medical dictates to care for others. By
interrogating how colonial medicine was constituted, Hibba
Abugideiri reveals how the rise of the modern state configured the
social formation of native elites in ways directly tied to the
formation of modern gender identities, and gender inequalities, in
colonial Egypt.
Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt
investigates the use of medicine as a 'tool of empire' to serve the
state building process in Egypt by the British colonial
administration. It argues that the colonial state effectively
transformed Egyptian medical practice and medical knowledge in ways
that were decidedly gendered. On the one hand, women medical
professionals who had once trained as 'doctresses' (hakimas) were
now restricted in their medical training and therefore saw their
social status decline despite colonial modernity's promise of
progress. On the other hand, the introduction of colonial medicine
gendered Egyptian medicine in ways that privileged men and
masculinity. Far from being totalized colonial subjects, Egyptian
doctors paradoxically reappropriated aspects of Victorian science
to forge an anticolonial nationalist discourse premised on the
Egyptian woman as mother of the nation. By relegating Egyptian
women - whether as midwives or housewives - to maternal roles in
the home, colonial medicine was determinative in diminishing what
control women formerly exercised over their profession, homes and
bodies through its medical dictates to care for others. By
interrogating how colonial medicine was constituted, Hibba
Abugideiri reveals how the rise of the modern state configured the
social formation of native elites in ways directly tied to the
formation of modern gender identities, and gender inequalities, in
colonial Egypt.
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