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Defiance and compliance : negotiating gender in low-income Cairo /
The gap between rich and poor is widening in most countries, putting more pressure on women in particular who often find themselves with the ultimate responsibility to provide for their families, especially their children, in the face of economic and political discrimination. Based on participant ob...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2002.
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| Colección: | New directions in anthropology ;
15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: A personal trajectory.
- Rethinking approaches to resistance, power and gender relations: towards a theoretical framework.
- The macrocontext: an overview of sociopolitical and economic transformations in Egypt.
- The research setting and characteristics of the study community.
- Ethnography in one's native city: research approach, methods, and fieldwork encounters.
- Premarital standards and expectations.
- Marriage transactions and negotiations.
- Defiance and acquiescence in the labor market.
- Conjugal arrangements and sexuality.
- Intrahousehold decisions and extrahousehold networks.
- Conclusion: Toward an "organic feminism".
- Table 1. Population of Egypt, 1937-1995.
- Table 2. An example of Ayma.
- Appendix 1. Description of study population.
- Appendix 2. Guiding research questions.