Defiance and compliance : negotiating gender in low-income Cairo /: negotiating gender in low-income Cairo. (2002)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Heba Aziz El-Kholy.
• Other Names: El-Kholy, Heba Aziz
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages)
• Subjects: 305.42/0962/16; Women -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Social conditions; Women -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Economic conditions; Poor -- Egypt -- Cairo; Sex role -- Egypt -- Cairo; Social conflict -- Egypt -- Cairo; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Manners and customs; Poor; Sex role; Social conflict; Women -- Economic conditions; Women -- Social conditions; Vrouwen; Lage-inkomensgroepen; Sociale ongelijkheid; Participerend onderzoek; Frau; Armut; Soziale Situation; Cairo (Egypt) -- Social life and customs; Egypt -- Cairo; Kairo; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782389347; 1782389342
• Related ISBNs: 157181390X; 9781571813909; 1571813918; 9781571813916
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.