Accommodating Protest: Working Women, the New Veiling, and Change in Cairo by Arlene MacLeod

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

Arlene MacLeod

206 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging reflective medium-paced
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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 subordinati...

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