Defiance and Compliance : : Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo /

Defiance and Compliance : : Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo / / Heba El-Kholy.

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
VerfasserIn:
El-Kholy, Heba,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Anthropology ; 15
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
  • INTRODUCTION: A PERSONAL TRAJECTORY
  • 1 RETHINKING APPROACHES TO RESISTANCE, POWER AND GENDER RELATIONS: TOWARDS A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
  • 2 THE MACROCONTEXT: AN OVERVIEW OF SOCIOPOLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN EGYPT
  • 3 THE RESEARCH SETTING AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STUDY COMMUNITY
  • 4 ETHNOGRAPHY IN ONE’S NATIVE CITY: RESEARCH APPROACH, METHODS, AND FIELDWORK ENCOUNTERS
  • 5 PREMARITAL STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS
  • 6 MARRIAGE TRANSACTIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS
  • 7 DEFIANCE AND ACQUIESCENCE IN THE LABOR MARKET
  • 8 CONJUGAL ARRANGEMENTS AND SEXUALITY
  • 9 INTRAHOUSEHOLD DECISIONS AND EXTRAHOUSEHOLD NETWORKS
  • CONCLUSION: TOWARD AN “ORGANIC FEMINISM”
  • TABLES
  • MAP
  • APPENDICES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

Similar Items