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Title: Accommodating Protest: Working Women, the New Veiling and Change in Cairo
Description: New York, Columbia University Press. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ This study examines the subculture framing the behaviour of lower-middle class women in Cairo and evaluates their constraints. It examines the conflicting ideologies of this class, where economic pressures push women into the workplace while traditional values encourage them to stay at home"- Publisher's description.

Keywords: Egyptian Sociology, Muslim Women, Working Class, Employment, Veil Veils Veiling, History of Religion, Anthropology Social, Modern Egypt, Ethnology Islamic

Price: US$ 38.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS016280I