Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-276) and index.
My house and yours : Egyptian state servants and the new geography of nationalism -- Inside Egypt : the harem, the hovel and the Western construction of an Egyptian national landscape -- Domesticating Egypt : the gendered politics of the British occupation -- The home, the classroom and the cultivation of Egyptian nationalism -- Table talk : the home economics of nationhood -- Reform on display : the family politics of the 1919 revolution -- Conclusion : It's a girl! Gender and the birth of modern Egyptian nationalism