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Past Member

Marilyn Louise Booth

Willis F. Doney Member

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Intellectual History
From
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?

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies
Fall

Degrees

University of Oxford
Ph.D.
1985