Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles

support arrears. But perhaps the most powerful yet difficult solution Haney proposes is shifting the cultural narratives around fatherhood to recognize the important roles that fathers play in their children’s lives beyond their financial contributions, acknowledging the precious social value that fathers’ caretaking has on the lives of their children. As is the case in all groundbreaking studies, Haney’s book generates new questions for future examination, especially regarding the effects of indebted fatherhood on the lives of custodial parents and children. Her analysis points to gendered distrust as an outcome of current policies and practice, and future scholarship can use this as a starting point to build from. Additionally, as Haney points out, very little is known about how the children of indebted fathers fare. Since children and their well-being are the primary moralized justifications for the debts accrued by their fathers, assessing how child support and reentry practices shape child outcomes and the perspectives of these children is a paramount next step for researchers concerned with poverty governance and child well-being. Another clear set of questions that logically follows from this study surrounds the extent to which Haney’s findings hold true in other locales, such as those with lower accumulations of child support arrears. However, this book in and of itself is a major accomplishment in both its breadth and depth, providing social scientists with foundational knowledge on the heretofore underexamined experiences of the sizeable population of marginalized men reentering society postimprisonment with child support debt. Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles, by Linda Herrera. New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2022. 256 pp. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9781649031020.