Between marriage and the market : intimate politics and survival in Cairo /
Hoodfar, Homa.
Between marriage and the market : intimate politics and survival in Cairo / Homa Hoodfar. - Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 1999. - 302 p. ; 23 cm.
Originally published by the University of California Press, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-297) and index.
1. The Research and Its Social and Physical Setting -- 2. Marriage, Family, and Household -- 3. In Search of Cash: Men in the Labor Market -- 4. Women and Employment -- 5. Money Management and Patterns of Household Budgeting -- 6. Nonmonetary Contributions to the Household Pool -- 7. Expenditure and Consumption Patterns -- 8. Social Networks and Informal Associations -- 9. Fertility and Sexual Politics -- 10. Conclusion.
Takes the reader into the Muslim home for a rare and intimate glimpse of the modern-day Muslim family. An Iranian Muslim by birth, Homa Hoodfar investigates the lives of poor families in Cairo over the course of a decade's research, documenting an Arab culture seldom understood by outsiders.
9774245008 (pbk.) 9789774245008 (pbk.)
2002360700
Households--Economic aspects--Egypt--Cairo Region.
Home economics--Egypt--Cairo Region.
Poor--Egypt--Cairo Region.
Sex role--Egypt--Cairo Region.
HC 830 / H777b 1999
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Between marriage and the market : intimate politics and survival in Cairo / Homa Hoodfar. - Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 1999. - 302 p. ; 23 cm.
Originally published by the University of California Press, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-297) and index.
1. The Research and Its Social and Physical Setting -- 2. Marriage, Family, and Household -- 3. In Search of Cash: Men in the Labor Market -- 4. Women and Employment -- 5. Money Management and Patterns of Household Budgeting -- 6. Nonmonetary Contributions to the Household Pool -- 7. Expenditure and Consumption Patterns -- 8. Social Networks and Informal Associations -- 9. Fertility and Sexual Politics -- 10. Conclusion.
Takes the reader into the Muslim home for a rare and intimate glimpse of the modern-day Muslim family. An Iranian Muslim by birth, Homa Hoodfar investigates the lives of poor families in Cairo over the course of a decade's research, documenting an Arab culture seldom understood by outsiders.
9774245008 (pbk.) 9789774245008 (pbk.)
2002360700
Households--Economic aspects--Egypt--Cairo Region.
Home economics--Egypt--Cairo Region.
Poor--Egypt--Cairo Region.
Sex role--Egypt--Cairo Region.
HC 830 / H777b 1999
339.2/2