Development, Change and Gender in Cairo
A View from the Household
Published on 22. June 1996
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-253-33027-7 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-33027-7 (9780253330277)
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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.
Content
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