Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0253210496 ISBN 13: 9780253210494

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

"... 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.

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DIANE SINGERMAN is Associate Professor in the Department of Government, School of Public Affairs, at the American University. She is the author of Avenues of Participation: Families, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo. HOMA HOODFAR is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. She has carried out research on the impact of development and social change on the lives of Muslim women in Cairo, Teheran, and Montreal.

DIANE SINGERMAN is Associate Professor in the Department of Government, School ofPublic Affairs, at the American University. She is the author of Avenues of Participation: Families,Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo. HOMA HOODFAR is Associate Professor in theDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. She has carried outresearch on the impact of development and social change on the lives of Muslim women in Cairo,Teheran, and Montreal.

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The authors of these rich ethnographic essays demonstrate that the Egyptian household plays a crucial, if largely overlooked, role into the dynamics of political, economic, and social change. While Western social scientists have assumed that employment outside the home improves women's autonomy and economic status, economic liberalization in Egypt is shown here to have worsened the economic situation of women and undermined their authority within the household. The collection explains why such everyday issues as unemployment, government subsidies, gender relations, housing, political participation, educational mobility, and the standard of living have become increasingly politicized at he household level, a development that has direct implications in the context of Islamist challenges to the state.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0253210496
• ISBN 13: 9780253210494
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Redattore: Singerman Diane, Hoodfar Homa
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile