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The Family Values: Is It Really About the Family? Analyzing The Family in the Egyptian Discourse Through a Sociological Lens
The Egyptian state has put on its shoulders the responsibility of protecting the family and its values. But how this family, in a massive society like Egypt, can be defined? In this paper, I argue that it has never been about protecting the family. However, it is an attempt to shape the citizens int...
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| description | The Egyptian state has put on its shoulders the responsibility of protecting the family and its values. But how this family, in a massive society like Egypt, can be defined? In this paper, I argue that it has never been about protecting the family. However, it is an attempt to shape the citizens into small separate hives which give the State the power to gain access to the intimate details of its citizens’ lives through which they can be easily monitored, managed, and controlled. By analyzing Michel Foucault’s work on government, power, sexuality, and family, I travel through a historical journey during the modernization period in Egypt. I attempt to tell the evolution story of the nuclear family in the Egyptian legal discourse and how the state unnaturally shaped it through laws, courts, and intellectuals. This paper attempts to illustrate that what we believe is the ultimate truth is not always the case. |
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| spelling | oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-3046 The Family Values: Is It Really About the Family? Analyzing The Family in the Egyptian Discourse Through a Sociological Lens Sabala, Taher The Egyptian state has put on its shoulders the responsibility of protecting the family and its values. But how this family, in a massive society like Egypt, can be defined? In this paper, I argue that it has never been about protecting the family. However, it is an attempt to shape the citizens into small separate hives which give the State the power to gain access to the intimate details of its citizens’ lives through which they can be easily monitored, managed, and controlled. By analyzing Michel Foucault’s work on government, power, sexuality, and family, I travel through a historical journey during the modernization period in Egypt. I attempt to tell the evolution story of the nuclear family in the Egyptian legal discourse and how the state unnaturally shaped it through laws, courts, and intellectuals. This paper attempts to illustrate that what we believe is the ultimate truth is not always the case. 2023-01-31T08:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2013 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3046/viewcontent/Taher_Sabala_thesis.pdf Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain Nuclear Family Power Morality Values Modernization Egypt Women Courts Shari‘a Foucault. Family, Life Course, and Society Gender and Sexuality Judges Law and Philosophy Law and Society Sexuality and the Law |
| spellingShingle | Nuclear Family Power Morality Values Modernization Egypt Women Courts Shari‘a Foucault. Family, Life Course, and Society Gender and Sexuality Judges Law and Philosophy Law and Society Sexuality and the Law Sabala, Taher The Family Values: Is It Really About the Family? Analyzing The Family in the Egyptian Discourse Through a Sociological Lens |
| title | The Family Values: Is It Really About the Family? Analyzing The Family in the Egyptian Discourse Through a Sociological Lens |
| title_full | The Family Values: Is It Really About the Family? Analyzing The Family in the Egyptian Discourse Through a Sociological Lens |
| title_fullStr | The Family Values: Is It Really About the Family? Analyzing The Family in the Egyptian Discourse Through a Sociological Lens |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Family Values: Is It Really About the Family? Analyzing The Family in the Egyptian Discourse Through a Sociological Lens |
| title_short | The Family Values: Is It Really About the Family? Analyzing The Family in the Egyptian Discourse Through a Sociological Lens |
| title_sort | family values is it really about the family analyzing the family in the egyptian discourse through a sociological lens |
| topic | Nuclear Family Power Morality Values Modernization Egypt Women Courts Shari‘a Foucault. Family, Life Course, and Society Gender and Sexuality Judges Law and Philosophy Law and Society Sexuality and the Law |
| url | https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2013 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3046/viewcontent/Taher_Sabala_thesis.pdf |
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