Development, change, and gender in Cairo : a view from the household
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Development, change, and gender in Cairo : a view from the household
（Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies）
Indiana University Press, c1996
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"...the quality of each of these essays is excellent, and the book warrants extensive reading by political scientists, sociologists, and all scholars of the contemporary Middle East. -American Journal of Sociology "This book's ethnographic material offers much to surprise and challenge assumptions about gender, Islam and social change in Egypt." -MESA Bulletin "Taken together, these articles leave the reader with an excellent understanding of the realities of contemporary Egypt and a sense of the vitality and energy that permeates Cairo." -Digest of Middle East Studies The essays presented here, based on extensive ethnographic research, focus on the Egyptian household as the key institution for understanding the dynamics of political, economic, and social change. Economic liberalization has had particular, often ambivalent consequences for low-income groups, especially women, and for gender relations.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Household as Mediator: Political Economy, Development, and Gender in Contemporary Cairo Diane Singerman and Homa Hoodfar 2. Survival Strategies and the Political Economy of Low-Income Households in Cairo Homa Hoodfar 2. Transforming Women's Identity: The Intersection of Household and Workplace in Cairo Arlene Elowe MacLeod 3. Egyptian Male Migration and Urban Families Left Behind: "Feminization of the Egyptian Family" or a Reaffirmation of Traditional Gender Roles? Homa Hoodfar 4. What's the Use? The Household, Low-Income Women, and Literacy K.R. Kamphoefner 5. The State, Urban Households, and Management of Daily Life: Food and Social Order in Cairo Nadia Khouri-Dagher 6. Beyond Paradigms of Development: A Pragmatic Response to Housing Needs in Cairo's Inner City Nawal Mahmoud Hassan 7. The Family and Community as Politics: The Popular Sector in Cairo Diane Singerman Contributors Index
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