Past Member
Marilyn Louise Booth
Willis F. Doney Member
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Intellectual History
From
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Marilyn Booth’s project on Arabic conduct pedagogy, 1860s–1920s, focuses on overlapping genres (etiquette manuals, school-texts, marriage treatises, novels) in Arabic, produced mostly in Egypt. What are their gender-modulated visions for forming a modern polity, in the context of anxiety discourses regarding the reading and leisure habits of the young?
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Fall
Degrees
University of Oxford
Ph.D.
1985
