Macleod, Arlene Elowe.

Accommodating protest : working women, the new veiling, and change in Cairo / Arlene Elowe Macleod. - Cairo, Egypt : American University in Cairo Press, 1992. - xxiv, 206 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index.

Women, power relations, and change in Cairo--- Lower-Middle-Class women in Cairo: The subcultural context of subordinate subjects--- Women at work outside the home: The experience of change--- Women's dilemma: The ideologies of Gender and economics--- Women's symbolic action: The new veiling in lower-Middle-Class Cairo--- The new veiling as accommmodating protest--- Accommodating protest and the reproduction of inequality.

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Muslim women--Social conditions.--Egypt--Cairo
Muslim women--Employment--Egypt--Cairo.
Working class women--Egypt--Cairo.
Muslim women--Conduct of life.--Egypt--Cairo
Veils--Social aspects--Egypt--Cairo.
Mujeres musulmanas--Condiciones sociales.
Mujeres musulmanas--Condiciones sociales.--Egipto
Mujeres musulmanas--Conducta de vida.--Egipto

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