Defiance and compliance : negotiating gender in low-income Cairo / Heba Aziz El-Kholy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El-Kholy, Heba Aziz, author.

Series:

New directions in anthropology ; 15.

New directions in anthropology ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Egypt--Cairo--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Egypt--Cairo--Economic conditions.

Poor--Egypt--Cairo.

Poor.

Sex role--Egypt--Cairo.

Sex role.

Social conflict--Egypt--Cairo.

Social conflict.

Cairo (Egypt)--Social life and customs.

Cairo (Egypt).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 observation and in-depth interviews in four low-income neighborhoods in Cairo, this book offers rich, novel and intimate data relating to poor women's lives and everyday forms of resistance to gender inequalities in the labor market and at home. In contrast to the common stereotype of Middle Eastern women as totally oppressed and devoid of agency, this study shows the complex and diverse ways in which low-income women devise strategies to contest existing gender arrangements and improve their situation. It is a significant contribution to current debates about poverty, gender, power, and resistance.

Contents:

Defiance and Compliance; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 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 SEXUALITY9. INTRAHOUSEHOLD DECISIONS AND EXTRAHOUSEHOLD NETWORKS; CONCLUSION: TOWARD AN "ORGANIC FEMINISM"; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781571813916

1571813918

9781571813909

157181390X

9781782389347

1782389342

OCLC:

654370400