Paperback • 1991 • English

Accommodating Protest Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo

Name: Accommodating Protest Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo
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About the book

This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained?An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large governmen...Show more

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ISBN

9780231072816

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

1991

Language

English

Original title

Accommodating Protest Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo

Format

Paperback

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