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Defiance and compliance : negotiating gender in low-income Cairo
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- Creator
- Heba Aziz El-Kholy
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2002
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- xi, 265 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 157181390X, 9781571813916, 9781782389347, 1782389342, 1571813918, 9781571813909
- OCLC
- ocn654370400, ocm48941889
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.
- 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