How Long to Read Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt

How Long Does it Take to Read Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt by Professor Hibba Abugideiri

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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.

How long is Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt?

Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt by Professor Hibba Abugideiri is 282 pages long, and a total of 71,064 words.

This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 87% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 28 minutes to read Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt aloud.

What Reading Level is Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt?

Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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