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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