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Accommodating Protest
Arlene Macleod
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Paperback. Accommodating Protest explores the subculture framing the behavior of lower-middle-class women in Cairo and evaluates their constraints and opportunities in a rapidly changing city. MacLeod examines the conflicting ideologies of the lower middle class, where economic pressures compel women to enter the workplace, even as traditional values encourage them to stay home as wives and mothers. Num Pages: 206 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSJ1; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the ... Read more
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 government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231072816
SKU
V9780231072816
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About Arlene Macleod
Arlene MacLeod is Associate Professor of Political Science at Bates College.
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