Global dreams : class, gender, and public space in cosmopolitan Cairo /
"At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving cafe latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
©2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: young professionals and the city
- 1. Dreams of a global Cairo: history, present and future
- 2. The education of class
- 3. The logics of reform: belonging in Cairo's coffee shops
- 4. Class and cosmopolitan belonging in Cairo's coffee shops
- 5. Of taxi drivers, prostitutes, and professional women: gender, public space, and social segregation
- Conclusion: global dreams and post colonial predicaments.